Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amount of contact between students and faculty, both in and out of class. Men get to know their teachers well in the small classes and seminars; and they meet them socially at student parties and dances. It is not uncommon for a Yale upperclassman to call his instructor by his first name...
...massive shiner on his right eye. Popular version: dining at a restaurant without his usual companion of late, Cinemactress Joan Fontaine, he let his eye rove too obviously toward a nearby beauty whose husband's aim was right on target. Aly's story: "My physical instructor hit me accidentally with his head...
Like its characters, The Limit has a wholly unprofessional air. Chapters are skittishly allotted first to one set of people, then to another. The stern "line" and "unity" of a Flaubert (or of a professional instructor in how-to-write-a-novel) is replaced by the skilled amateur's best tool-a skewer of personal touch and bias that holds all the pieces together. To post-Edwardian writers, obsessed by character analysis and an urge to get to the bottom of everything, The Limit should bring two salutary reminders: 1) actions speak louder than words; 2) the agony...
...Kachinsky Flying School, where he was treated with groveling politeness and fragile care. He never stood guard duty, ate special meals, slept apart. He smoked the finest Pushka and Kazbek cigarettes. Flying came hard, but he never got a thumbs-down. A special plane and a special instructor were set aside for the "Red Czarevich." Finally, in the fall of 1941, Vasily won his wings...
These experiments are related to a larger report presented this spring by Ernest E. Williams, instructor in Biology, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Cleveland. This work of Williams and his research associates like Van der Kloot was awarded the annual first prize of a thousand dollars...