Word: workshop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barrage of Sights. What Sesame Street does, blatantly and unashamedly, is take full advantage of what children like best about TV. "Face it-kids love commercials," explains Joan Ganz Cooney, executive director of NET's Children's Television Workshop. "Their visual impact is way ahead of everything else seen on television; they are clever, and they tell a simple, self-contained story." Instead of cornflakes and Kleenex, Sesame Street sells the alphabet, numbers, ideas and concepts in commercial form. Each program contains a dozen or more 12- to 90-second spots, many repeated during the program to boost...
...Then there are the two fathers of Negro culture in America. Dr. George Washington Carver who came up from slavery, learned to go to school, devoted himself to his own research in "God's little workshop," and eventually developed 300 useful products from the peanut, 118 from the sweet potato, and more than 60 from the pecan. And W. C. Handy, who taught himself how to play a $1.75 trumpet, joined a band of roving minstrels, and became famous writing songs like "St. Louis Blues." After his success, his father told him, "Sonny, I am very proud...
...notice gave no explanation for the eviction- effective October 31. But Shepard Brown, vice-president of Hunneman and Co., said yesterday, "We thought thiswas going to be some kind of printing workshop. But then we discovered that they were distributing resistance literature and sent a 30-day notice. This was not proper use of the store...
Also joining the demonstration will be a contingent from the Harvard chapter of Worker-Student Alliance (WSA) SDS. Judith R. Kauffman 70, a member of the WSA Caucus, attacked he Project at a WSA-SDS meeting Wednesday and led a 14-man workshop dealing with the Project after the meeting...
...Cambridge is being transformed into one of the world's foremost counterinsur-gency centers," Miss Kauffman said at the workshop. "The Project won't involve abstract technology- it's designed for counter- revolution," she added...