Word: pupil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...legs by such tricks as running through ankle-deep sand and sprinting up and down an 80-ft. sand dune 40 times a day or more. To give Elliott the energy to run 25 miles a day, Cerutty stoked him with oats, nuts and fruits. He urged his pupil to "thrust against pain and be contemptuous...
Even if an English teacher has a gift for his profession and a proper grounding in it, there is no certainty that his classes will get the training they should have. Instructors who must teach writing report daily pupil loads of up to 225; at one theme a week and a skimpy five minutes' grading time for each theme, this situation adds a killing 18 hours to their work week. Tuttle's and the council's recommendation: daily loads of not more than 100 students. Without charge, English Teacher Tuttle throws in some advice to school boards...
...begun when he developed tuberculosis, spent six months in a sanatorium, followed by four years of convalescence. "Those were the most valuable years," says Hjorth. "I began thinking and experiencing nature.'' Finally cured. Hjorth switched to sculpture, went to Paris to study with Rodin's famed pupil. Antoine Bourdelle dabbled in cubism, finally found his artistic forefather in Paul Gauguin...
...Boulez, Tchaikovsky is "abominable," Brahms "a bore," Twelve-Tone Pioneer Arnold Schoenberg an arrested post-Romantic who "discovered the words but never found the proper syntax for them." Just about the only older composers for whom Boulez has a kind word: Schoenberg's late pupil Anton Webern, and France's 49-year-old Organist-Composer Olivier Messiaen, from whom Boulez sought composition instruction after giving Paris' traditionalist Conservatoire the back of his hand ("The composition professors were imbeciles"). From Webern, Boulez derived and refined Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique to its uttermost austerity, and from Messiaen...
President Kubitschek wanted Niemeyer to design Brasilia alone. But Niemeyer staged a public competition for the pilot plan, was jubilant when the winning entry-a city plan that from above looks like an airplane-was submitted by his old teacher, Lucio Costa. Said his former pupil: "Costa set high standards and we will keep to them...