Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retired from the service of the British government in 1949 as headmaster of Barking Abbey School in London, and came out to Africa to teach English. (Headmasters don't have much time for teaching...
Some language professors in particular do not like to teach these courses because of the often unwilling and bored nature of a captive audience...
From the Ground Up brings this independence movement to housing. The two authors, the editor of The Maine Times and a physics professor at Bowdoin, have each designed and built their own house in Maine and are anxious to show others how to do it. Out to teach people that they need not take a mass-produced plain white two-story Colonial house as a home, the book contributed to the quiet movement to take responsibility for the formation of a part of people's lives away from professionals in large businesses, and to assume that responsibility themselves...
...cousin, once a thin, cerebral chemical engineering student at the University of Maine, left school five years ago when he decided to teach himself how to build houses. He has learned well and has also bought farmland and taught himself how to farm. Now he looks as strong and healthy as a bear. My cousin is the best argument I've yet seen for Wing and Cole's assertion that people should teach themselves how to build, and for the larger assertion that people should learn to rely more on their own skills...
...EXHIBITION of etchings and lithographs by Dine, currently at M.I.T.'s Hayden Gallery, displays works from the 1970s, after Dine had left New York to teach at Oberlin and then lived in Europe for several years. Without trying to analyze step-by-step developments in Dine's graphic art during the past six years, the exhibition does a good job of showing major themes and trends...