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Chopin was interested. Thalberg agreed. Liszt's old teacher, onetime Beethoven Pupil Carl Czerny, promised to come from Vienna. The others were Thalberg's teacher, Johann Peter Pixis, Pianist-Composer Henri Herz and Liszt himself...
...Come on now!' the dean said. 'What does "talking down" mean?' " After several guesses ("Does it mean arguing with the student?" "Telling a pupil his mistakes?"), the group got the answer, dutifully rated the phrase "quite important...
...title carefully. "I believe," says he, "that teaching is an art, not a science . . . It is much more like painting a picture or making a piece of music . . . like planting a garden or writing a friendly letter." It is an art that must change with every class and every pupil, from the "spoiled, ill-mannered boobies . . . whose ideals are gangsters, footballers, and Hollywood divorcees," to the gifted enthusiasts who are "the joys, the sorrows, and the horseflies of the teacher's life...
...Harvard Law School Association in the newly dedicated Harkness Commons. Endowment for the chair was provided by the joining of two gifts, the Roscoe Pound Fund, best up in 1936 by the Harvard Law School Association, and a recent bequest by the late Edward Buckner, a friend and former pupil of Pound...
...Like his compatriot, Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, he has not returned to Spain since the civil war of the '30s. Still practicing from five to six hours a day, self-taught Andrés Segovia often permits himself a restrained self-compliment: "The teacher is satisfied with his pupil...