Word: pupil
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...athletic power and aesthetic sensibility. She has a natural fizz that makes the efforts of most others look labored. In fact her coach, Jutta Muller, is a stern drillmaster who is accustomed to Olympic triumph: her daughter Gabriele Seyfert took the silver medal in 1968, and Anett Poetzsch, another pupil, was the Lake Placid gold medalist...
...insist on seeing Devil's Bag challenged first. "Some day we're going to have to call on him," says Stephens, "and you'll see a horse who'll fight back." As it happens, the second most impressive two-year-old, Swale, is another pupil of Woody's. The thought of two such talents in one barn is taking people back to Calumet days 35 years ago, to Citation and Coaltown, names like plucked strings, back when horses made love for a song...
Perception is reality. It has long been an axiom for soldiers. "All warfare is based on deception," said Sun Tzu, the great 4th century B.C. Chinese strategist whose prize pupil turned out to be Mao Tse-tung. The Greeks understood that principle when they set sail from Troy, leaving behind only a large wooden horse. Macduff knew it when he disguised his soldiers with branches from Birnam Wood as they marched against Macbeth. In World War II, the Allies created a phantom First U.S. Army Group, outfitted with rubber tanks and canvas landing barges (courtesy of the Shepperton movie studios...
...conquered the land of Proposition 13. Last November Honig, a former elementary school teacher, beat the incumbent and popular superintendent by hitting again and again on the need for homework, discipline, high standards. California had ranked among the top three states in the nation on school spending per pupil until the mid-1960s. It dropped to 17th place in 1969, and after Proposition 13, to 31st place in 1981-82. And a marked decline in California education performance accompanied the decline in funding...
...Complete Stories, Nahum N. Glatzer, editor •The Name of the Rose, Umber to Eco •The Philosopher's Pupil, Iris Murdoch Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Peter De Vries