Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaving now, after only four years at Harvard, Rudenstine quickly scotches rumors that dissatisfaction with Harvard's English Department has driven him away. "I'm leaving prematurely, it's true," he says, "but I certainly wouldn't have left Harvard at this point in order to teach English somewhere else. This chance was something new--something interesting and entirely unexpected...
Prospects for the less skilled, including college graduates, are more limited. A few Americans teach in the local schools, but since Montreal is largely French-speaking, two languages are generally prerequisite. The language barrier also eliminates any job here that might involve substantial contact with the public...
IGNORING two protest letters from a cluster of usually pro-Administration academics, Secretary of State Dean Rusk has remained steadfast in his refusal to grant Yugoslavian author Vladimir Dedijer a visa to teach at M.I.T. this spring. Rusk's ban is clearly a frightened, anti-Communist reaction, revealing more clearly than ever how vulnerable the Administration considers itself on the Vietnam...
...serious breach of academic freedom, imposing a substantive restriction on the right of a university to hire anyone it chooses to teach its courses. A general application of Rusk's restriction would bar most of Europe's great philosophers, teachers, and other intellectuals from American universities--an action hardly in the long-range national interest...
...hammer; later he learned violin and trumpet from his father, a house-painter-laborer who played at village dances. He was barely 14 when he left home with a military band to start his career. For most of his life he had to play in orchestras, conduct or teach to support himself: when the Royal Orchestra premiered his Symphony No. 1 in Copenhagen, Nielsen could be seen sawing away dutifully at his regular stand in the second violin section...