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These findings result from week long visits to the all girls Emma Willard school in Troy, N.Y. where Gilligan conducts extensive interviews with the students three times a year...
...justice and caring orientations manifest themselves at Emma Willard. One of the girls that she had placed in the "justice" category turned in two of her fellow classmates for cheating, while more of the "caring-oriented" girls than the "justice oriented" ones handed in a survey that Gilligan had distributed...
Trudy Hammer, associate principal at the Emma Willard School, says that as a result of Gilligan's findings on female moral develoment, the school is in the process of overhauling its curriculum and placing more emphasis on collaborative learning and less on the more autonomous, competitive techniques. "We're trying to move away from the male way of doing things" she says...
Well, there was the Texas Kid, or Willard Watson, as he calls himself when he isn't working on his folk art. The Kid is 63, the grandson of a slave, been shot at nine times and married seven, once on a $100 bet. The Kid exhibits his art work on his front lawn. ("I used to have such a beautiful yard," said the wistful Mrs. Watson, who also used to have a nice piece of white rug before the Kid turned it into a hat:) The Kid makes found art. An aluminum shark, a tin cow, a pair...
...lemon grow. And, yes, never the twain shall meet. But the poet's point is a poor comic premise. Though Best Defense provides both stars a few funny moments and offers some promising satirical ideas, its binary construction imposes a fatal jumpiness on it. Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who co-wrote American Graffiti and Indiana Jones, have proved they can do better. Huyck, the director here, will have to prove on some other occasion that he has a gift for being funny on film as well as on the page...