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...girl physiotherapist," "former Harvard lecturer turned tycoon in ladies' underwear.'' Frequently, Brooks offers an acid explanation of the owner's reasons for selling: "One of the big pots in chamber music, leader of a famous quartet, taking up suburban residence with former girl viola pupil, sacrifices exciting newly built mews residence...
...Bargain. Though off relief, the new cabbies decided to keep on with their schooling. For a model they can look to Hilliard's star pupil. Laborer William Rhymes, 53. jobless since 1959. who recently outshone hundreds of rivals in a stiff exam for high school entrance. Now he aims to earn a diploma in three years. "No kid of mine is ever going to drop out of school," vows Rhymes. That's saying...
...orientation program includes instruction in the direct-method of teaching English, a method used when a teacher and pupil do not have a common language...
Machiavelli's Pupil. Erlanger makes it clear that 16th century behavior must not be cut to fit 20th century motives. In particular he observes that separation of church and state was not an unpopular idea in the 16th century; it was not an idea at all, and a ruler to whom it had been expressed would have found it incomprehensible...
...garish side, Mary Vogel Walton has a bad diction problem ("lit-tle, Lat-tin, . ."). Despite her handsome bearing, when she opens her enough what comes out is dull, thus reducing the Dean's patron (and former pupil) to a dramatic nonentity, Kathrya Schoes (Cora Jenks) commits the converse sin of unmitigated shricking...