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...structure of nature, he cited the mathematical study of languages which revealed that the equation relating the frequency with which certain words are used is of the same form as the equation for the distribution of the bodies in a system that has come to equilibrium. He used a blackboard to write equations, much to the pleasure of the Sanders audience, but to the consternation of those in the New Lecture Hall...
...movie house and deposited a greying man whose Connecticut license plates read: DICR. A guard nonchalantly nodded him through, and inside, Songwriter Dick Rodgers was greeted by his longtime mate in music, Oscar Hammerstein II. Unobtrusively, they paced the outer fringes of a noisy, cluttered stage, paused beneath a blackboard reading CINDERELLA RUN-THROUGH-FULL CAST. "This is no-script day," said Hammerstein. There were 21 days left to turn the scullery maid of an idea-a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical version of Cinderella-into the glittering color spectacular CBS promises to deliver live to the TV audience on Sunday...
Nevertheless, he urged students who "like the idea of helping young people" to ignore the heavy-handed implications of "Blackboard Jungle" and stressed the "wonderfully durable satisfactions" involved in teaching...
...Light. Like other first-rate intellects, Von Neumann had an uncanny gift for explanation, and the wonder of clear communication in his abstruse field happened whether he was talking to a packed lecture hall or to a single listener. He would grin, draw a few symbols on the blackboard, say a few simple words and grin again. Then, little by little, a new kind of light would begin to shine on the most difficult subject...
...Luckman was tossing passes at Baker Field. While his colleagues beam in admiring good will, President Grayson Kirk sings his praises as "an able and exciting teacher," the Graduate English Department information desk bears the legend "Only Charles Van Doren Knows All the Answers." and his students decorate the blackboard with such questions as "For $52,500, what did Plato mean by Justice?" At St. John's, where only two faculty members deign to own TV sets, President Richard Weigle went to a neighborhood bar to catch last week's show...