Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ozawa observed last month in Paris, where he was conducting at the Opera. "It is so strong and so logical that it is very easy for every nationality to learn." At the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, Ozawa studied conducting with Hideo Saito, who had been a pupil of Cellist Emanuel Feuermann in Germany. Saito was aware his students lacked cultural grounding. "He said that if you know the music and have no tradition, then you must go to Europe," remembers Ozawa. "If you have talent, you should have a very good nose to smell which is good...
...Japanese performers, educators and critics admit that the lack of real comprehension is the greatest hindrance to Japanese musicians' acceptance in the West. Students too are often taught to emulate their sensei (teachers) rather than to think for themselves. Perhaps it is no contradiction that Saito's most flamboyant pupil is also his staunchest admirer...
...else is a shambles. The director, Andrei Konchalovsky, has an unique gift for bringing out the worst in good actors. Alan Bates, as Stephanie's composer husband, looks goofy in a Beethoven haircut; Star Pupil Rupert Everett rants and sniffles; Macha Meril, as the Italian maid, provides her own subtitles in moments of distress ("Aiuto! Help!"). And finally the movie exonerates all the rats in Stephanie's life. She sees them happy and united and goes off to die by her favorite tree. Duet for One died long before...
...want to go to college to become a doctor," the high school pupil told the researchers. Why? "Basically so I can make some money and then take it easy." A college student described her priority as "having a job when you get out." As for broad scholarship that might expand one's vision or values, another student declared: "I'm not interested in hearing about the professor's Ph.D. dissertation...
...John's Moore excelled in English and wasa prize pupil of Brother Santoro's acclaimed highschool company, which won statewide "mini-academyawards" in repeated drama festivals. As a kid herecalls loving disaster movies and wanting toactually "play the Towering Inferno," and hismother says he annually staged a backyard pick-upplay, the way other kids would organize astreet-wide round of touch football...