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...beginning of La Lecon, the pupil is admitted to the professor's study. She has ribbons in her hair, a vacuous stare, chewing gum, a copy of Elle, and a youthful, overpowering spontaneity. Her new tutor enters: striped necktie, fuzzy bead, stiff-bearing, and a fixed gaze which could be either intense or myopic. The lesson begins...
...professor naturally wants to improve the girl's grasp of fundamental principles, to insure that the knowledge she acquires will be a permanent protection against the chaos of experience. But his pupil is wholly deficient in logical capacity. The professor's efforts to impart the elements of mathematics only succeed in confusing her and stifling her enthusiasm. The girl is unable to go beyond simple addition, in spite of the professor's warning that all of life, philosophy and civilization consist in being able to disintegrate as well as integrate. If she can perform other operations (such...
They proceed to study the elements of comparative linguistics. The professor outlines the history and theory of the "Neo-Spanish" tongues, which all share an identical vocabulary and grammar. This, of course, makes it impossible to tell them apart... By now the pupil is completely distracted thanks to a toothache, but the professor persists. His lesson, a mixture of sophistry and flights of fancy, is incomprehensible. At last, in the climactic scene, he holds up an imaginary object and orders the girl to repeat "knife" in each of the Neo-Spanish idioms. But her pain has become unbearable, she cannot...
...when he recited his lessons. He would put a little finger under each word. You could see he was real pleased as he slowly made out the words, a letter at a time. He was bright and very affectionate." Yet for all her softness toward her youngest pupil, Kate Deadrich, at 5 ft. 10 in. and 165 lbs., was an imposing disciplinarian...
...between 50% and 100%. Prices have also risen for everything from haircuts to shirts. Though wages have risen by one-third (to an average $53 monthly), many people have to moonlight to make ends meet. The latest tale wagging around Belgrade's coffeehouses has a teacher asking a pupil why Tito holds three jobs, as chief of army, state and party. Answer: nobody can live off one job in Yugoslavia...