Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...although I cannot multiply as fast as befits a teacher. But writing, my friends! Especially on blackboards! As I was putting some questions on the board, I heard one child whisper to another: "Gee, she writes terrible!" I agreed out loud and told them nobody had taught poor little me to write, and that they'd have to help me. But my greatest hold on the circus is Dramatic Reading. Apparently they have always been read to in a monotone, for they find my delivery most enchanting. So the offer is: a half-hour's story-reading...
...face the brats, racking my overwrought brain as to how I can keep each class busy throughout the long, long day. Every evening I come home full of wonderful stories, some funny, some sad as hell, and filled with new ideas on how to get an idea into the poor little heads. Then, after dishes, I start to work on next day's plans. At 10, or more frequently midnight, I creep to bed like a licked cur, only to dream of teaching. How I hate it and how I love...
...human life. The three Mathews children, whose home is run by a woman not their father's lawful wife, who has no time to care for children even when they are sick. They have ceased to be problems and are my best students now. And so many others-poor, underprivileged, mishandled creatures, and so worth careful attention. That is what makes it all so damnably hard. How can one teacher give 43 children the time and attention they need...
...dashing young sailor, Gauguin the successful banker and stockbroker, and even to Gauguin the diffident "Sunday painter." But at 35 he quit his job and left his wife and five children in order to paint full time. Then Paris was different. It was, said Gauguin, "a desert for a poor...
Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from Three Operas (Soloists, orchestra and chorus of the Moscow State Theater of the U.S.S.R.; Disc, 6 sides). Powerful rumblings by Soviet baritones and bassos, and less spectacular arias by women singers, from Pique Dame, lolanthe and Eugene Onegin. Performance: good. Recording: poor...