Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck hired Theodore F. Harris, a ballroom-dancing instructor, to teach her the rumba. Widow Buck, now 74, took a motherly interest in Harris, now 36, named him president and executive director of her tax-exempt Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which since 1964 has raised $155,000 to help care for about 1,000 of the hundreds of thousands of rejected, mixed-blooded "Amerasian" youths who since 1945 have been fathered by American servicemen from Korea to Viet Nam. Mrs. Buck and Harris swung across the U.S. last year on a fund-raising tour that actually...
...Harvard Summer School Committee for Human Rights in Southern Africa will present a teach-in on "American Foreign Policy and Racism in Southern Africa," Thursday at 8 p.m. in Burr B. Speakers will include Allard Lowenstein, American expert on South West Africa...
When I graduated in '62 I doubted that the Air Force had much use for a future professor of English literature, but I decided to find out. Besides, I wanted something from the Air Force: firsthand information. I figured I had no business trying to teach anybody anything until I knew what was going on beyond the well-tilled fields of Wordsworth. The experience was something like selling one's soul. But it has not been wasted time...
...stands for," then work as long as six months polishing her delivery. With Jane Morgan, they played up her sex appeal and styled her vocal treatments after Lillian Russell; with Teresa Brewer, they provided "lots of saloon songs arranged as if they were done 30 years ago." They teach their singers how and where to walk (glide, but never too close to the tables lest someone see sweat or telltale wrinkles), give them mildly risque parodies of such standards as Let's Do It and breezy between-song patter (says Duddy: "Most singers should not be allowed...
Disoriented because his term as Ambassador has turned his interest from past to current events, Reischauer will not teach any of his traditional courses this semester and is still uncommitted about the Spring. "All my work used to be in the pre-modern period, and now I just don't know where I fit in," But if he is unsure as to what he will teach, his planned writing on modern Japan, diplomacy, and the Asian scene, should keep him busy. His final job during the year will be to drop by the State Department occasionally to advice...