Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seeger no longer speaks highly of nomadic ways. Although he said that "travelling taught me working people," Seeger now advocates establishing one's roots. "The search for community is one of the most important searches today. Every intellectual is kidding himself if he thinks 'his' community is made up of only people like himself. You have to know everyone, from the baker to the banker. The middle class is kidding them-selves: if you don't know the workingmen, you're in a very weak position...
Early in the book, Emerson quotes Nguyen Ngoc Luong, her Vietnamese interpreter, who wrote to her after she left, "There is an acute lack of forgetfulness in you about Vietnam." Much later in the book, she responds: "Korea taught me nothing, for no one spoke of it when I was growing up, except as something about how wonderful the girls in Japan were. Vietnam taught some of us more than we perhaps ever wished to know...
Bate, who has taught at Harvard since 1946, has served as chairman of both the History and Literature Departments and the English Department...
...books on foreign affairs included a sardonic plea to keep the U.S. out of a European war (England Expects Every American to Do His Duty, 1937). His Anglophobia, however, was tempered after the U.S. joined the conflict. Following the war, Howe continued as a broadcaster, taught journalism, helped found and edit Atlas magazine...
...After earning her law degree at Berkeley in 1965, she became the first woman to clerk on the Nevada Supreme Court, where Justice David Zenoff pronounced her "intellectually marvelous." Bird, who has never been married, then became the first female public defender in Santa Clara County, Calif., and also taught litigation and consumer law from 1972 to 1974 at Stanford...