Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold that day, so cold that the air was noisy and burned with excitement. Perhaps it was speaking of the teach-in; perhaps you only thought so, but you were excited and felt movement and a strange kind of vigor, uncharacteristic of most winters...
...WINTER then, and appropriately so. Teach-ins aren't a way of coming in out of the cold maybe...
...sounds of Phil Ochs were in your head and drove onward in a persistent fugue, calling to mind so many teach-ins, marches, gestures. "I ain't a marchin anymore"--"One more parade"--and you entered the Brattle; it was crowded, pulsing to some mystical rhythm, and the beautiful people were there, out of winter's woodwork for the afternoon's happening...
Politicians, like prizefighters, rarely retire by choice. Not so Lester B. Pearson, 71. Since he retired as Canada's Prime Minister last month, Pearson has declined an offer to teach full time at Yale, although he may give a series of lectures at Harvard next winter. He has settled into a small white cottage in suburban Ottawa, where he intends to spend his days savoring his wife's home cooking ("It's fantastic") and chasing down cobwebs. "We wanted a smallish house," he says, "so that I could do the housework...
...school that sets out to teach rabbits to act like tigers figures to have a high flunk-out rate. When it comes to that kind of attrition, there are few schools to match the one that is run semiannually by the Professional Golfers' Association. The P.G.A. "rabbits" are would-be touring pros seeking to qualify as "Approved Tournament Players" and earn the right to compete for fame and fortune with the veteran "tigers" of the tournament trail...