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...pupils, but "workers." Its teachers were "co-workers," its classes "groups," its lessons "jobs." Boeke gave no grades, no punishments and few tests; he never allowed anyone to be flunked. Instead of principal, he called himself "general leader," and his school became known as a Children's Workshop Community. Discipline? The workers must impose that upon themselves. "I don't want them to learn to obey," said he. "I want them to think." The type of community he was aiming for: a pure "sociocracy," in which the whole society would be sovereign...
...Caucauasu" was an Algonquian word meaning "elder" or "councilor." The Americans borrowed it and made it "caucus," meaning a party war council on the eve of battle. Last week, at Cincinnati, 125 Republican caucauasu caucused on the eve of battle. They called their meeting a "workshop," a term borrowed from universities, which had (quite unimaginatively) borrowed it from workshops. The chief Republican caucauasu at Cincinnati was Vice President Richard Nixon. "I do not come to you terribly optimistic or terribly pessimistic," said the Vice President to the Republican braves. "I think that this election is extremely close. We Republicans...
Cooperation without Compromise. In its 14 years. Poet Paul Engle's Writers' Workshop has become one of the most flourishing in the U.S. It has attracted such students as Novelist Wallace Stegner, such teachers as Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Robert Lowell. Its staff helps edit Poetry magazine and the annual O. Henry Prize Stories collection, in one year managed to turn out six published novels.* But S.U.I.'s zest for experiment seems to extend through the humanities...
Next record: a vocalist named Rusty Draper ("Real sincere, but a little cold lately"), singing In the Workshop of the Lord. This was "a sacred thing," but what the hell could you do with the pairing? On the other side of the record was a hot-rhythm number. Turned down...
...Compleat Handyman. In his home workshop, the compleat handyman usually starts out buying a little $25 utility drill to act as a portable sander, buffer and saw. If he wants to make furniture, he discovers he needs a bigger, stationary tool for ripsawing heavy pieces of wood, buys himself an arbor saw for $150. Next he wants a jointer for cutting precise corners, which costs him $130. Then he wants something to drill deep, accurate holes, and so buys a drill press for $100. As he graduates to fancier work, and starts putting intricate filigrees in his woodwork, he needs...