Word: counselors
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From there, Grew moved upward through posts in St. Petersburg, Vienna and Berlin-where, in 1916, he was counselor of the embassy and worked with futile desperation to head off American participation in World War I. Later he became chairman of the Examining Board for the State Department's Division of Foreign Service Personnel, where he became a sort of career-service saint in his emphasis on the need for trained professional men rather than political hacks. He wryly told candidates: "You gentlemen have a very easy time entering the service. All you have to do is to answer...
Gilbert was raised in a tough section of Brooklyn, but managed to escape being contaminated by the rough-necks. At age 11, he went with his younger brother to Camp Molloy, a Catholic camp on Long Island, where one of the counselors wanted him to sing in the camp show. Gilbert was reluctant, but the counselor advised, "Just look at the light over your head and make believe you're in the shower." He looked up and sang, and the shower was one of loud applause. That day Gilbert discovered he had a fine soprano voice...
Thompson says that once back in the U.S. he reneged on the Russians and did no more spying while in service. He got an honorable discharge in December 1958 and went to Detroit. There he was approached by a Russian named Boris Karpovich, a Soviet embassy counselor in Washington who was kicked out of the U.S. in January. Boris told him to get a job with the FBI. Thompson, a high school dropout, said with rare perspicuity that he doubted the FBI would hire him. For nearly two years thereafter the Soviets left him alone...
...Crazy as Hell." The boys live in groups of six or fewer in a remodeled city hospital, with one counselor assigned to each 15 students for 24-hour guidance. Class sizes range from 20 down to individual tutoring. Reading clinics never have more than five students. The concentrated instruction is confined to basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, relies on oral explanations, uses no standard texts. The school's accent is on the positive: boys earn merits, never demerits, are rewarded progressively with a school jacket, pins for the jacket, a school sweater...
...York City's "Calvin Coolidge High" is an anachronism, up-to-date only in its paperwork. The guidance counselor records students' negative motivations; the nurse, their positive Wassermanns. But the faculty's interest is , more clerical than clinical, and even dropouts are a problem more of tabulation than of salvation. After 15 years of teaching in schools like Coolidge, Bel Kaufman, a granddaughter of Yiddish Author Sholom Aleichem, in 1962 published a satirical anthology (From a Teacher's Wastebasket) of staff directives, lesson plans, and faculty memos, and she has now extended it to novel length...