Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tend to judge military power by the rise of defense spending, Weston's parents have learned to equate quality education with regular yearly jumps in the school budget. There has never been much real pressure to hold spending in check, and budgets have ballooned accordingly. In 1980 per-pupil expenditure for operations and amortization exceeded $3,600 for the town's 1,922 schoolchildren, placing Weston in the ranks of educationally elite suburbs like Winnetka, Ill., whose New Trier East High School is widely looked upon as the best public secondary school in the country...
...Prospect Heights. A former inner-city schoolteacher, Lindstrom founded the academy in 1968 partly to oppose what he saw as creeping socialism in the public school curricula. Today, 150 students (preschool through twelfth grade) get a stiff dose of moral education and free-enterprise economics in small classes (average pupil-teacher ratio...
...Bluebeard's Castle, in a concert version-being done several times over. The Boston Symphony performed the Concerto for Orchestra, the piece it premiered in 1944. The biggest American celebration, though, was in Detroit, where 52 guest artists recently joined Conductor Antal Dorati, 74, a BartÓk pupil, for a twelve-day marathon...
...childishness, she neither acts nor reacts to the other characters. Her presence stimulates them, while she remains passive. When a shy, poetic classmate of hers feels that his love for Lizinka has been repulsed, he commits murder and then suicide. Later, Assistant Professor Simsa becomes attracted to his pupil, but finds that his impotence is directly proportional to his desire. In a brutal and surreal scene, he takes Lizinka to a prison and tries to rape her while he hangs a prisoner--a mass rapist and murderer--from the gallows. Throughout, Lizinka is unmoved...
...residents of Kulyenchikov are not just stupid. They're idiots. The fish vendor sells carnations as haddock and the doctor can't read his own eye chart. The star pupil, whom the newest teacher, Leon Tulchinsky must cure, just learned to sit down a few days ago. Sophia is 18 years old. This would be just another pointless Simon situation commedy--a collection of Amelia Bedelia jokes, as one viewer put it--if it weren't for the necessity of affirmative action...