Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spilling out of a Manhattan tenement onto a June-baked side street are all Mr. Rice's once-familiar exhibits-gossips, sluts, roughnecks, a dispossessed family, a jittery expectant father, the Negro janitor, the Italian music teacher, the Jewish law student, young Rose Maurrant whom he loves, and Rose's ill-mated parents-the mother who has taken a lover, the father who has taken to drink. Long brooding over the Maurrants, melodrama bursts upon them at last-with two quick revolver shots behind an open window...
...Washington Avenue, where Roger Sessions was born 50 years ago, Aaron Copland was born four years later. In 1928 the two composers sponsored a Copland-Sessions concert series for contemporary music. During the past two years, Sessions has taught composition at the University of California along with his onetime teacher, Composer Ernest Bloch, and often visits France's Darius Milhaud, who teaches at nearby Mills College. In this stimulating atmosphere he has half-finished a third symphony and has begun a four-act opera called Montezuma. He started the Roosevelt symphony in 1944 at Princeton, was on the third...
...more or less of a habit. For ten years John J. Sparkman had taught Sunday school in his home town of Huntsville, Ala. Then he went to Congress, but it did not keep him from his old ways. Three years ago he became the regular Bible teacher for adults at the Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting his class in the chapel for an hour every Sunday morning. Last week, with Congress once more in session, Methodist Senator Sparkman was back in his Sunday-school job. The topic for study: the Gospel according to St. John...
...swap of 148 U.S. and British schoolteachers (TIME, Dec. 23) was not all a warm handshake across the sea. Pueblo, Colo, sent a teacher to London, got in exchange a pert, plain-spoken London schoolmarm named Miss Alice Elliott. When the Pueblo Lions Club asked for her honest impressions of U.S. schooling, Teacher Elliott startled the local Lions with a little roaring of her own. Excerpts...
...Here the teachers never meet. Back home ... we have some social contacts. While the children have their free milk, the teachers have 20 minutes for a cup of tea and social intercourse. There are no bells ringing and no dictatorship rules. ... I like to be conscientious as a teacher of my own free will. ... I don't feel free in Centennial...