Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrations swept the city like a sudden tornado. TIME Correspondent Marcia Gauger, on leave to teach journalism at the American University in Cairo, was about to conduct a seminar when students from Ain Shams University marched past her classroom windows on their way to the People's Assembly Building in Cairo. "There was no question of their temper," Gauger reported. "They were spoiling for a fight; they were angry...
...with both my kids," Robert Lindsey '78 said. "There's no resentment of me because I'm a Harvard kid, or because I'm white." Roxbury students interviewed seemed to agree. "It was cool," Leroy Adair said. "My tutor let me read some poetry. He didn't try to teach me nothing I didn't want to know...
...first things that owners look at in choosing supertanker skippers is family background. Explains Meurs: "The men to run the top ships must come from super-tidy, disciplined families who teach their sons to live by the book-no sloppiness, no boozing, a solid family life." Many captains are trained, for tuition costs starting at $3,000 a week, at one of three supertanker schools in Holland and France. At Meurs' school, the Dutch Institute for Navigational Training, nearly 100 students a year go through a seamanship course run by a 17-member staff that is headed...
...January courses can also further students' serious interests. At N.Y.U., for example, Professor Henry Mullish attracts about 150 "highly motivated" graduate students and fellow teachers for his five-day course on computer science. Since many nonscientific fields in which they work call for statistical analysis, Mullish attempts to teach them the rudiments of computer programming while dispelling their "innate distrust" of the machines. Says Mullish: "I win them over by teaching them a modicum of contempt for computers...
Would-be surgeons are required to study Gray's Anatomy before walking into the operating room. They ought to study Mortal Lessons as assiduously. Medical texts can only teach the location of the internal organs and explain the techniques of surgery. Richard Selzer forces physicians to think about the morality of medicine - and to search for meaning in the rituals of an art "at once murderous, painful, healing and full of love...