Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piano; Circle). A massive and powerful work that seems younger than its 53 years. It is free of the flowery passage work of Busoni's famous piano transcriptions, but never dissonant in the modern sense. It is excellently performed by the Boston Symphony's concertmaster and a pupil of the composer...
...drumming as a Boy Scout in Brooklyn (he thinks "Americans have special imagination and aptitude for drumming"). When he was in high school, he heard a concert by the Philharmonic, and was so fascinated by the timpani that he dashed backstage and asked to become the timpanist's pupil. Six years later his teacher retired, leaving 20-year-old Saul in charge of the percussion section...
...teachers was a man dedicated to a relatively new idea: that the health of the people is a proper concern of governments. The teacher, William T. Sedgwick, has gone down in history as the father of the public-health movement in the U.S. In Manhattan this week, Pupil Winslow won a special ($2,500) award from the Albert & Mary Lasker Foundation because he has fathered modern public-health practice, not only in the U.S., but around the world...
...tiers in the U.S., and such honored elder surgeons as New Orleans' Alton Ochsner and St. Louis' Evarts Graham, there was none among them who towered above his fellows as did Baltimore's William Stewart Halsted half a century ago, or Halsted's pupil, Harvey Gushing, a generation later. The reason lies not in a decline in the caliber of surgeons, but in a change in the nature of surgery itself...
...country, she finds the relationship between teacher and student far more healthy and constructive than in Europe. "American teachers have much more respect for the student. Students don't learn to be meek and mousey: they're invited to speak up. In Germany, the teacher is the master, the pupil is a little 'pimpf'. The master-servant relationship in the German school and family was the Hitler regime on a small scale, a preparation...