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...memorable occasion, which Premack records with almost parental pride, his pupil invented a sentence-completion game and invited her trainer to play. The trainer had set up some nonsensical physical-relation tests involving objects and colors-red is on (i.e., superimposed upon) green, green is on banana, apple is on orange-to test Sarah's proficiency in word order. Abruptly, Sarah took over. She began a sentence "Apple is on ... ," and then arranged a number of possible completions, only one of which she considered correct: "Apple is on banana." Then she led her trainer through the multiple choices until...
...pain of such conflicts that increasingly drives parents to special, even desperate attempts to understand. Those who truly make the effort also find that in a strange way the parent becomes the child's pupil; that in guiding his father through the country of the young, the son becomes the father. Psychologists like Berkeley's Paul Mussen predict that this phenomenon may become common in U.S. life, at least among middle-class parents. As Mussen puts it, "We are going to see a period in which the young will be our teachers...
...then lights out for Hollywood to claim half of an acting school owned by Myron's uncle, Buck Loner (John Huston). Once she implants herself as a teacher there, she decides to initiate her program of conquest of the male by sexually humiliating a Cro-Magnon pupil named Rusty Godowsky (Roger Herren). That task done, in a scene so tasteless that it represents some sort of nadir in American cinema, she fobs Rusty off on a horny old talent agent (Mae West) and puts a light finishing touch on her dark enterprise by trying to seduce Rusty...
Born. To Andrés Segovia, 76, classical guitarist, and Emilia Segovia, 31, his former pupil and wife of eight years: their first son, Carlos Andrés; in London...
Williams, like his former pupil, Martin Luther King, espouses a basic integrationist philosophy. "The Judaeo-Christian teaching," he says flatly, "is simple on the unity of mankind. Those in the black movement who are moving toward separation are wrong. We have been criticizing the white Protestants for separatism. If they were wrong, I don't see how the black militants can be right. What sense does it make in the last quarter of the 20th century for a person to get in a corner all by himself...