Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Triangles & TV. The council's first job is to revamp math teaching for 100,000 youngsters from first through eighth grade. The basic idea is to make math fascinating instead of a drudgery. First-graders use Tinkertoy-type men with wooden "fingers" to play variations on a theme of ten. Mental arithmetic encourages fast shortcutting. Algebra's inscrutable x's and y's become inviting squares and triangles that cry to be filled...
...theater, managed to put together a cumbersome stage melodrama called Man from Shensi, which inexplicably became a hit. One reason: the first night, the hero leaped into the air, fell through rotten floor boards. The audience laughed so hard that the brothers made the crash part of the play...
...cause or aggravate an emotional upset. Many company psychiatrists, unable to keep tab on all workers, train managers and supervisors to watch for signs of mental disturbance. Dr. Alan McLean, fulltime psychiatrist for IBM, spends half his time coaching executives in this art. He warns them against trying to play psychiatrist, insists that workers be immediately referred to a psychiatrist or plant doctor for "emotional first aid." Plant psychiatrists usually handle only fairly simple cases, such as unwarranted health anxieties or constant fatigue, send workers to outsiders for prolonged treatment...
...existence of a careful housewife, a faithful, even timid mate, a concerned mother. Now, around her in the hospital, she sees too many examples of human ugliness-women near death who can still be petty, cruel, gluttonous and vain. Yet she still has an eye for a youngster at play, for courting pigeons, for flowers. Author van Velde triumphs over her unattractive little world by accepting it for what it is. just as Mrs. Van der Veen, with all her fears, remains a figure of dignity till the end. Without tricks-and without sentimentality-The Big Ward leaves the feeling...
...Balcony. To France's Jean Genet, the world is a great squamous bordello, and his play argues with convincing irony in support of this notion...