Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aristocratic Irish family. He got his start as a singer in 1942 when he sang from the stage of a Limerick movie theater; the O'Maras, a wealthy meat-packing family in the audience, arranged for him to study in Dublin under McCormack's old teacher...
...Aristotle's sentence is the charter for every school and college in the land. It is the license for every teacher. He is telling us why we Americans want education to be for everybody. He is telling us why we know in our hearts that grownups need it as much as children do-or more. He is reminding us again that people 'just naturally' want to learn. And he knows that people just naturally need to be reminded. For-also by nature, alas!-all men forget the things they most desire...
Returning to Harvard again after the war, Conant kept up his researches in explosives, and in chlorophyll (the "what makes grass green" factor). As a teacher, he developed a good sense of showmanship to go with his ability to talk in chalk. In the course of one lecture, he whipped an egg out of his pocket, dropped it into a substance which he said would solidify the albumen, whipped it out again and heaved it at the wall over his students' heads. They were relieved to find that the professor was right: the egg bounced...
Catalyst with Resilience. Having just weathered the toughest science brushup course of all time, Teacher Conant should be in good form. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee he exercised absolute dictatorial powers over men and materials in its $2 billion wartime research program, developing radar, antiradar, various new chemical warfare wrinkles-and nuclear fission. Conant's job was as an organizer, moderator and catalyst, but he would have failed if he had not been a topnotch scientist...
...year. They came from everywhere. Fred Cole, one of the richest in the industry, is a former cinemactor; Miss Johnson is a former singer who took to snipping only three years ago. One of the oldest, Joe Zukin, is an ex-cattle rancher. Also included: an ex-lawyer, ex-teacher, ex-druggist, ex-jockey...