Word: pupil
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...Kirov school. There he happened to attend a class taught by the late Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin, a great master who coached Nureyev and Valery Panov. Not hoping for much, Baryshnikov approached Pushkin (no kin to the famed Russian poet) and said, "I would very much like to be your pupil." Pushkin felt his legs and body and asked him to jump up and down. Says Baryshnikov, "I was like a young goat knocking over tables and chairs." Pushkin quickly conducted him downstairs, where the school's doctors "felt me the way they would a race horse." Apparently they approved...
...suspiciously top-heavy margin of 59,637 to 1,496. Although there was little debate before the act of union was rushed through India's Parliament last week, one opponent of the bill did charge India's Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan with behaving like "a very apt pupil of the British...
...that lies on the ground, crawls up the wall or dangles from the ceiling that the convention of figure-on-base seems almost an archaeological memory. Yet it was Caro, 15 years ago, who came out with a real alternative to that convention. In the '50s, as a pupil at the stuffy Royal Academy School in London and later as a studio assistant to Henry Moore, Caro had been trained in a monolithic approach to sculpture. His work reflected it: scarred, blimpish nudes writhing lumpily on their pedestals. Then, in 1959, Caro made his first trip to America...
...school desegregation plan is coming around next September, and he has over 16 proposals from which to draw up its guidelines. Five of these plans are particularly important because they represent the major groups involved. The School Committee proposes voluntary busing, with the rather unusual stipulation that each pupil would have to attend an integrated school at least once a week. The School Committee staff's plan, which it rejected, opted for alternative learning styles within racial guidelines, and the busing of at least 31,000 students. The Home and School Committee, which represents the interests of many South Boston...
...starting lessons so late, "because when I did begin, my parents didn't have to nag me to practice." She spent the first month of the past summer studying intensively under Russell Sherman, a teacher associated with the New England Conservatory. Sherman at one point, Krag says, told another pupil of his that "he took me on to broaden his horizons." She practised eight hours a day and "got my playing to as high a level as it could ever be." That experience fulfilled a need but also reinforced what she had always known. "Total immersion in piano...