Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bewildered Pupil. The truth was that the Kremlin, with or without lying help from the late Beria, had known exactly what Tito was up to all these years. Born in Yugoslavia, trained in Yugoslavia, admired and hated in Yugoslavia, Tito owed the Russians little except a postgraduate schooling in Marxist dogma and Communist deceit. He had run his own war with little help or advice; he planned to run his own peace...
...most elementary schools in all countries do, a French school in Cannes drummed up an essay project on the subject: "What I want to be when I grow up." Most significant paper was turned in by Pupil Pierre Thorez, 10, son of France's ailing, villa-dwelling Communist Boss Maurice Thorez. Wrote Pierre: "I want to become an admiral and command a fleet of battleships ... I would review the sailors while listening to music played by naval bands. I would wear feathers in my ceremonial hat and gold braid." It all sounded quite a bourgeois concept of an admiral...
...most any conference of U.S. educators these days, the topic was bound to come up at the regional meeting of the National Education Association in Denver: What can a teacher do to help that most neglected of schoolchildren, the bright and eager pupil? Last week a genial and tireless public-school man named Eldred Harrington gave an answer that left his Denver audience astounded. "We didn't know what to make of the fellow," said one teacher, "but he certainly was interesting...
...give less than an 'A--' to one of my tutees." But as no marks are guaranteed before they reach University Hall, the student tends to regard his tutor as a grader, and acts accordingly. The tutorial program, adapted from British universities, purports to bridge the gap between the pupil and pedagogue; however, when a tutor must evaluate this in terms of a grade, it limits a free exchange of ideas and creates a false atmosphere. As a history tutor explained, "Some students invent problems just so they can come to my office...
...Salt Mines. When he is off the air, Liebman takes his pleasures seriously. With his wife, ex-Operatic Soprano Sonia Veskova ("She was a pupil of Tetraz-zini"), Liebman lives in a six-room Park Avenue apartment with an extensive collection of impressionist and primitive paintings (his favorite artists: Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Ilonka Karasz) and shelves of Dresden china, porcelain figurines and antique service plates. His personal chef "may possibly be the greatest chef in the whole world." Even when the Liebmans dine alone, service is formal: "We always have wine and finger bowls...