Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less able to learn. They argue that because of yesterday's racism, today's black children are unable to learn unless they have white children to use as models. We believe black children score lower on reading and other performance tests because a racist system does not try to teach them--not because of black inferiority...
Alan Bates makes a fine, fleet Butley. "Oh, if only they'd get on with it and let us teach!" he moans as he invokes the weight of spurious administrative duties to dodge yet another tutorial. He never allows the irony to become too heavy at moments like that; he always keeps quite the proper balance, making the ruse believable but also hypocritically funny. He is also a master of the throwaway and can brush off a fast line like a piece of dandruff off his rumpled suit. Confronted with a thick M.A. thesis entitled "Henry James...
...holdups and burglaries on that old demon vodka. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev gave tacit recognition to the problem when U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited him recently. Discussing with Kissinger plans for a U.S.-built soft-drink factory in the Soviet Union, Brezhnev mused: "Maybe we can teach our people to drink less vodka and more Pepsi-Cola...
Senior and junior faculty members as well as teaching fellows would teach the modules...
...unfair to a young professor to hold him in non-tenured position for too long a period of time without making a final decision about his qualifications to teach at Harvard. On the other hand, a University's extensive use of short-term appointments with frequent rotation of personnel introduces practices which one junior faculty member called "academic scab labor," by which universities could staff most of their teaching positions with low-paid young teachers to whom they have few obligations...