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First of a New Kind. Jenny Johnson is Wolfson's star pupil, the first with a quality fit for critics. After showing documents to prove that she has no structural abnormality in her voice mechanism, she sings the high notes of a coloratura selection, then switches to her male tenor voice for Ridi, Pagliaccio without apparent strain. Says Wolfson: "The famous larynx of gold of great singers is just a legend. Everyone possesses one." In Wolfson's dream Jenny and her co-pupils will be the first with a new kind of voice; it may have...
Even by the standards of Diamantina, the Kubitschek family was poor. When Júlia had taught her son all she could, she persuaded Diamantina's Roman Catholic seminary to take him as a pupil at a reduced tuition fee. On his first day of school, Juscelino, then eleven, put on his first pair of shoes, bought with money earned as a grocer's errand boy. Recalls one of his seminary teachers: "I never saw such a remarkable memory in a child. He could recite an entire page by heart after reading it once. He was not what...
...Stuart Davis, 61, started as a pupil of Robert Henri, founder of the famed "Ashcan School." While obeying Henri's injunction to go out and paint what he saw on the streets, Davis found that his eye was particularly taken by the hard, jazzy, garish, kaleidoscopic aspects of city life. The Armory Show of 1913, in which modern European art first burst upon America, introduced Davis to abstractionism, and in 1927 he clamped onto it for good. He nailed an eggbeater, a rubber glove and an electric fan to a table and painted them over and over. "Through this...
...sense, the action called for was mild. The voters simply approved a plan recommended by a commission headed by State Senator Garland Gray to 1) provide private-school tuition to pupils in cities and counties that had closed the public schools rather than desegregate, and 2) pay the tuition of any pupil who wishes to attend a private school in cities and counties that have desegregated. But mild or not, the action was in every way a revolt, an overwhelming sign that Southerners are thoroughly aroused against a decision they think violates their rights...
...then let them dictate a story about it to the teacher. The story appears in the newspaper or on the experience chart, and the children see their own words translated into what otherwise would be meaningless symbols. Whatever devices she uses, the teacher sticks fairly close to her pupils' interest and experiences. She may take them to an airport, says Associate School Superintendent Helen C. Bailey of Philadelphia, and then have them dictate a story about it to her. "This is a kind of commercial to get them interested. We show them the words so they'll want...