Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Looking like an iridescent flapper from the '20s, Ethel Beatty makes Memories of You a heartbreak blues. Just about the entire cast puts sizzling bawdy English into If You've Never Been Vamped by a Brownskin, You've Never Been Vamped at All. Miss Aggie apparently taught Eubie more than he could ever forget...
Kasper is largely self-taught. He took only one shop class, back in seventh grade. "Mr. Castellano was the teacher--dead now, I think. He used to drink a lot of rye during class...
With the zeal of the sinner reformed, Charles Jackson Grayson Jr. goes around the country preaching that inflation cannot be defeated by price controls. Sad experience has taught the professor: he was Richard Nixon's price commissioner during the cold, post-freeze days of controls from 1971 through early 1973. Now this much-lettered man (Pennsylvania M.B.A., Harvard D.B.A., ex-FBI agent, ex-S.M.U. business school dean) is trying to sharpen what he considers America's most forceful anti-inflation weapon: productivity...
...World War I; the next conflagration receives extended attention from writers as diverse as Randall Jarrell, Karl Shapiro and Robinson Jeffers. Teacher-poets appear in the '30s and '40s: R.P. Blackmur, William Empson, Allen Tate. A generation later is heard the dry academic rustle of those they taught...
...McDaniel taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1937, when he retired as chairman of the Classics department there. He also taught such notables as Ezra Pound and Thornton Wilder...