Word: rigidities
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...forgotten Maria Montessori, the practical Italian idealist who founded her own brand of progressive education in 1907. Though once Americans acclaimed her, John Dewey's permissive disciples pooh-poohed her as too rigid, and only in Europe have Montessori schools made real headway. But last week, in a handsome new building in Greenwich, Conn., the nation's only "pure" Montessori school was dedicated. Whitby School is startling on at least two counts: it was founded by firmly anti-permissive Roman Catholics, and its old Montessori methods turn out to be a showcase of nearly every "new" idea that...
...with less skill. When, which isn't often, they move at all, actors wander aimlessly and helplessly in front of Todd Lee's immense set, apparently to obscure each other at critical moments. Everyone except the chorus carefully skirts center stage, and the blocking progresses in a series of rigid, oddly one-sided tableaux which ensure that each scene not hopelessly confused is tediously, outrageously static. The Chorus has a good deal of pacing to do, which it does largely out of step not only with itself but with its words and Jeremy Johnston's admirable and elegant music. Part...
...evidence is impressive. Alex Alazraki. who was born with only stumps for arms and legs, uses the vestigial limbs to pop tiny screws into packages, punches out orders at a respectable hunt-and-peck speed on the typewriter, drives his own car to work. Murray Nemser, his backbone fused rigid by war injuries, does a full day's work estimating contract bids while stretched out on a mobile cot beside his desk. A one-armed man, using a special jig, performs a delicate soldering job. Women with arthritic-weakened wrists wind wires with the aid of an Abilities-designed...
...long as the Administration at once maintains a rigid set of rules and attempts to deny their importance by brushing off discussion, so long will the student have no change to change them. The light laugh of dismissal is unarguable. Maybe the best course is just to keep hammering, and maybe, after the Masters have been deprived of a little relaxation they may agree with at least Yale's recognition of the five-day week. Of course, they...
...demolition teams (frogmen) is probably due more to their higher verbal abilities than to on-the-job hazards. Air pilots in training have, naturally, more anxiety than business executives; priests have less?but this may be a reflection of their having found a certainty of faith and of a rigid routine that conceals if it does not catharize anxiety. Convicts have far less than average. This reflects both routine and the high prison population of conscienceless psychopaths. Least anxious of all, on the Cattell-Sheier scale, are university administrators...