Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since last December, the sewing machines of Duhamel girls hum away in a handsome glass-and-pine chalet at 4,921-ft. altitude in the mountain village of St. Sorlin d'Arves, near Grenoble of winter Olympics fame. To this small ski resort come groups of 40 workers from Harnes for four weeks of work and ski; they sew from 7 to 10 and from 4 to 6, get out on the slopes in between...
...almost any standard, Neil Rudenstine is the Successful Teacher. He is friendly and witty and handsome. At 33, he is assistant professor of English at Harvard, giving his own upper-level courses in Elizabethan English Literature, as well as sharing the guidance of Hum 6 with venerable Reuben Brower. He has studied at Princeton (where he graduated summa cum laude in 1956) and Oxford (where he went as a Rhodes Scholar for three years) and Harvard (where he got his Ph.D...
...most impressive part of Rudenstine's success is the intense devotion he inspires in his students. From the grad students he guides through the esoterica of English 235 to the freshmen who slog with him through the mysteries of Hum 6, his students are uniformly enthusiastic, and their praise becomes almost monotonous...
Rudenstine's manipulation of the Hum 6 mystique has probably won him the most fans. Perched cross-legged atop a table in a dreary, third-floor Sever room, he gently probes the intricacies of Eliot and James and Shakespeare, urging his section towards the Hum 6 View of the World. It doesn't always work: the Hum 6 magic-show of extracting meaning from symbols overwhelms some students and exasperates others. But they keep coming back. "Because we love Mr. Rudenstine," a Cliffie says...
...left a Rudenstine Hum 6 section last week, a freshman Cliffie burst out, "I feel all like Diogenes. I've found Truth at College. I've found the Honest Teacher...