Word: apprenticeships
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Although NBC pointed out that the Today show will continue to have its traditional varied balance of breakfast matter, the choice reflects the network's growing emphasis on news and public affairs. After an apprenticeship on the Chicago...
...last July, the Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul." Home admitted wistfully that "one would have to have the hide of a rhinoceros not to be affected by the criticism." But he defended his apprenticeship for the job. "After all, for five years it was my job to explain foreign policy to the Commonwealth." Officials used to his rather dour predecessor, Selwyn Lloyd, were charmed by Home's wit and informality (Home rides up front in official cars, putting the Scotland Yard...
...also recommended that the colleges exercise greater control over the apprenticeship period of teacher instruction, and give the "cooperating teachers" an "associate of the college" position and financial renumeration. Also, the period of apprenticeship should be prolonged when necessary, for the student to obtain a certain level of competence, the report said...
Gorky, however, should not be commented on he should be read, and the Gorky Trilogy. (Childhood, My Apprenticeship, and My Universities) serves as a good introduction to the Soviet master's iron words. Though most of the 150 people whom Childhood attracted to M.I.T. Saturday night came to hear spoken Russian, few were left disappointed by a sound track blurred with age. The film's simple tragedy and exaltation more than compensated...
Security Syndrome. Gradually the reader comes to see that the book is really an indictment of education as a class-apprenticeship. The college warden is a businessman whose carefully cultivated eccentricities (e.g., gardening seminude) are bogus, the college chaplain is a neurotic without faith, and the scholars are without scholarship. Typified by Chote, the non-U students of Sturdley are obsessed to an indecent degree by love of money and of security. In this situation, the usual English envy-hatred syndrome focuses upon the American undergraduates who resent being taunted for having money, especially when they don't have...