Word: teach
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...some recent court decisions have upheld the homosexual's right to teach. In 1969 the California Supreme Court ruled that homosexuality in itself is not a cause for disqualifying a teacher. The District of Columbia and San Francisco school boards, among others, have banned discrimination in the hiring of gay teachers...
Chen has a weakness for these military analogies. Perhaps the correspondence between war, with its manipulation of armies, and music, with its manipulation of tones, suggests itself to him through his study of Tai Chi, one of the Chinese martial arts. Through these exercises, which teach a stylized and highly disciplined form of self-defense. Chen claims to have acquired the self-control and profound concentration that he brings to his conducting. The bare hands are the weapons both for self-defense and for conducting, and Chen has trained his to function "with their own mind, and yet without mind...
...place, though things may have gotten to a point where it's no longer anything to break engagements over. But it's a safe bet that the Summer School continues to affect people the way it affected them in The Pedagogues, and that reading the book would only teach you that real life unfortunately isn't as simple as light turn-of-the-century novels...
When Banfield left Harvard in 1972, Penn offered him the equivalent of a university professorship, with the freedom to teach in any department and an increase in salary...
Banfield said he left because Penn offered him a job "that gave me the freedom to teach what I wanted when I wanted" and because "I felt 14 years, the time I spent at Harvard, was a long time to be in one place...