Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geisha world are one of the main targets of the current antiprostitution law, and it is up to you. the true geishas, to dispel this conception. The true geisha's life is her art. Study hard and always strive for its perfection." Soon afterward, the school star pupil, vivacious, 19-year-old Mariko, was awarded top prize for the year for having earned some $5,300 in declared income and an estimated $14,000 more in tips from satisfied customers...
...mankind is us"). Beckett presents them, however, not as Romantic individualists, but as two pairs--each pair being, like the two sides of a coin, opposites but mutually inseparable (it corresponds to the dualistic concept of inyo that permeates so much of Oriental thinking). In one case: teacher and pupil, guardian and ward, rationalist and emotionalist, etc.; in the other: capitalist and laborer, upper class and lower class, exploiter and exploited, etc. Superb as was Bert Lahr's performance individually last year, the requisite mutual rapport between Gogo and Didi was lacking; and it is this complementary interrelationship that Messrs...
That night the Queen sat on the edge of Clint's bed as she tucked him in, and said: "I heard what the prince told you today, and I agree with him. I believe you are a favorite pupil of Jesus." For a moment, two troubled eyes stared back at her. Then Clint said: "I don't believe it! I won't believe it unless my daddy says that he believes...
...royal palace in Athens. During these visits young Clinton Peurifoy played freely with Queen Frederika's two children. One day Prince Constantine said to his little American friend: "My sister and I have been talking about you, and we have decided that you must be the favorite pupil of Jesus...
...Well," replied the prince, "you know how it is. In school the best pupil is always given the hardest problems to solve. God gave you the hardest problem of all, so you must be His favorite pupil...