Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute operatic treatment of Honoré de Balzac's spine-tingler La Grande Bretêche, with music by California-born Stanley Hollingsworth, 32, pupil and protégé of Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the NBC Opera Company, Bretêche closely follows the Balzac tale-a bedroom farce given the Grand Guignol treatment- about a wife who hastily conceals her lover in a closet, swears to her husband there is no one there, and then stands by in helpless horror as the husband has the closet bricked up. While much of the original's strength...
...remarkable woman. When she was only 21, Anne Sullivan of Boston went to Tuscumbia, Ala. to be coach and tutor to seven-year-old Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf. Annie's first act was to thrust a doll into the hands of her pupil. "When I had played with it a little while," recalled Helen Keller years later, "Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play ... I did not know [for several weeks] that I was spelling a word...
...schemers (led by Yul Brynner) who want her to be recognized as Anastasia only in order to get their hands on her unclaimed inheritance. They plough all the proper aristocratic graces and memories into the haunted girl, and finally present her to the dowager empress (Helen Hayes). The pupil now and then surprises her tutors with fragments of memories that could come only from the real Anastasia, so that the film clearly believes in Santa Claus. Unfortunately Santa Claus runs away with Yul Brynner. She renounces imminent royal recognition for love in a moderately tear-jerking, immoderately unconvincing manner...
...story told by Admiral Charles Brown was a stirring lesson for young and old. Clinton Peurifoy, the hero, will always be an inspiration to all that read it as well as the favorite pupil of Jesus...
Today, Mrs. Tunnicliff has a volunteer teaching and medical staff of seven, branch clinics in Lynn, Springfield. Lowell, Jamaica Plain, Lawrence and Merrimac. Her approach does not involve elaborate psychiatric techniques. It relies mostly on developing in each pupil control and coordination...