Word: workshop
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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MacLeish was a found of the Harvard Radio Workshop--an actors' group not affiliated with the network--which closed down in the spring of 1949. Official opening ceremonies for the station's newest and largest studio will also be held. The studio has been in use since the fall...
What sort of "opportunities" do the teachers' colleges give? Sperry gathered examples. At one summer "workshop," he watched 200 teachers spend hours going over a list of 100 obvious phrases and rating the ideas as "quite important," "of average importance," or "not important." For instance, reports Sperry, "the group . . . rated 'To help children with their academic problems' as 'quite important.' When we came to the eighth phrase ('To avoid sarcasm or "talking down" in your relations with children') . . . there was an uneasy silence...
...Attractive." This summer workshop-including its special morale-building song ("We are working in the workshop/ Working all day thru/ Learning all about Democracy/ Education and Science too . . .")-was not unique in its preoccupations. At another conference, "I saw some 400 poor, tired, middle-aged teachers solemnly conduct a discussion of 'desirable characteristics for a teacher.' They listed, one after the other, all the human virtues and agreed that teachers should have them . . . They [concluded] by taking a formal resolution that 'teachers should be personally attractive...
Pierian, which new sponsors the orchestra, will provide music, coaching, and a meeting place for rehearsals of the new groups. Combination as well as individual students will be accepted into the workshop...
...first workshop meeting for strings will he at 10 a.m. Sunday in the Paine Music Building. Woodwinds and horns will meet a week later...