Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title role, Rosenstock borrowed Baritone Marko Rothmuller, a onetime Berg pupil, from London's Covent Garden (from which he also borrowed the English translation). Rothmuller was a sympathetic character as the cloddish, hallucinated soldier, but vocally he turned out to be a bellower. Soprano Patricia (The Consul) Neway was miscast as Marie: she was more of a heart-wringing Tosca than the faithless tart she was supposed to be, and she screeched in her attempt to be heard over the orchestra...
...pupil of his in the Bible class...
This form of learning does have some good qualities, however, Roger says: adaptation of teach methods to individual pupil differences, adaptation of subject matter to individual interest, and the inauguration of many new subjects. But the defects far out weigh the assets, he concludes...
...came close to glory by tying for second money in the 1920 U.S. Open. Better known as a Texas golf teacher, Burke Sr. died in 1942, failed to see his own son crowd Pro Jimmy Demaret for the honor of being old Jack Burke's most illustrious pupil. Young Jack literally carried on where the elder Burke left off. He qualified for the U.S. Open in 1939-and his father failed to do so for the first time in 25 years...
...started to collect a library when still in grade school, and with fanatic neatness insisted that the books must always be kept in exact order. His first pupil was his younger sister Carolyn. The first lesson was an early Adlerian version of evolution. Mortimer declared: "You ought to know the facts of life. First there are fish, then come monkeys, and then little girls. Mother will tell you the rest...