Word: classroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this pedestrian production, all that is least attractive in Brecht becomes dismayingly visible. He is a classroom martinet using the stage as a blackboard for his highly debatable theorems. He is forever barking out class-conscious slogans at what he regards as an inattentive crew of playgoing idiots. The Teutonic condescension of the man finally becomes as irritating as it is boring. Inspired direction can mask the defects of monumental didacticism, the preachiness of a Shaw without wit. This Director Vance fails to do. In Houston right now, the playhouse is the thing...
...research after 1945." One inevitable result has been the student riots, the worst of which occurred at Columbia soon after Barzun completed his manuscripts. He is noticeably cool to student rioters, although he sympathizes with some of their protests. So many professors are busy with activities outside the classroom, he says, that they have become guilty of slipshod teaching, poor preparation, dull lectures, careless assignments, late markings and a cavalier attitude that eventually justifies the anger of revolutionary undergraduates at a depersonalized system...
...college dropout during the Depression, Fink went back to City College in 1956, and is now working on his master's in public administration at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He talks to his men as if they too were in the classroom. "You can't go out there with the idea that hippies are a problem," he lectures his men at roll call. "You can't stand there with a stolid countenance. Don't wait for them to break the ice. You have to initiate the communication...
Almost ignored were 1,100,000 students, who are not only losing classroom time but possibly suffering serious psychological damage from the conflict. "The children sense that the order of society is very fragile and unstable," said Dr. Bertram Slaff, a psychiatrist at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital...
...moving the third and fourth year students to hospitals, Goldhaber expects to free laboratory and classroom space for an increase in enrollment. The class of '75 will be about 24 students, 50% larger than the current size...