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...commission surprised them by inviting representatives from all concerned groups-friends and foes alike-to participate in some 30 special workshop sessions in communities across Colorado. At those meetings, the commissioners remained mostly silent. "We were learning," says Claude Peters, the commission's consultant planner. "We needed to be aware of the local problems." Adds Commission Chairman John Crowley: "We ran across old records that showed how much life a certain piece of land could support. Old ranchers with good memories fed us valuable information. AH the pieces came together...
Pumpkin Play. Mrs. Weber's chief importance nowadays is as a teacher of teachers. In her workshops, she hacks up pumpkins and blows on pinwheels and encourages her students to do the same, so they can learn what many find surprisingly difficult-to see "with the child's eyes." She then offers a childish question and asks them to imagine how a child might pursue it. In one workshop, for instance, the problem was: "How many questions can you think up about feet?" The answers from the student teachers ranged from counting toes to evolution...
...signers of the petition, who are members of the Critical Anthropology Workshop, a Harvard-based group, also expressed concern over the social implications of "I.Q." "Such theories attack the legitimate aspirations of oppressed people for a decent life," the petition stated...
...well in its adaptation. Set in a prison for Marines, the play details the horror of prison life and should assault the viscera as well as the mind. Coming and Going uses only half of the play, and speeds up speech and action to an incomprehensible level. In the Workshop version of The Brig, the barricades dividing victims and executioners are just being exposed when they should also have been vehemently condemned...
Even the old-time populists were represented. Firtz V. Stover, a weather-beaten Iowa farmer in his sixties who nominated Henry Wallace at the 1948 Progressive Party convention. ("I knew soon enough though that he was a sell-out"), told the farm workshop about the plight of the small farmers being bought out by agribusiness. "It's almost as bad as the Hoover Depression," he lamented...