Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work was generally referred to as his third symphony, though it is probably his fifth. (Says Stravinsky: "Don't ask me. I hate the numbers. It is a symphony in three parts.") His first symphony, written at 25 and dedicated to his teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, is no longer played. He wrote another in 1920, in memory of Debussy-a seldom played twelve-minute symphony for wind instruments, which he still thinks is a wonderful work but was too new for the public then. In 1930 Koussevitsky persuaded him to write a symphony for the 50th anniversary of the Boston...
Protestant Weakness No. 1. In last week's Christian Century, John Paul Williams, professor of religious literature and history at Mt. Holyoke, pointed to this clerical abdication as the No. 1 weakness of Protestantism. Wrote Teacher Williams...
...What the student needs is a teacher friend. I don't mean Mark Hopkins on a log or Hannah Lyman behind the teapot I mean real teaching by real people . . who think, feel, judge and act with skill...
Besides being shown at the museum until mid-July, some of the films will be distributed to 350-odd organizations throughout the U.S.: colleges, Parent-Teacher Associations, clubs, even prisons. The museum program does not include every documentary of first-rate interest. (Notable omissions: all newsreels since 1931; issues of MARCH OF TIME since 1940.) But cinemaddicts who still doubt that the documentary is growing up might do well to paste the following titles in their hats, and to see them-in parish house, college, jail, or Manhattan-if opportunity offers...
...Most parents regard passing ... as a child's democratic right. . . . Unless a teacher wishes to be picked to pieces . . . she cannot fail a third of her pupils, and so she passes nearly everybody. . . ." Meanwhile, sighs Principal Henry, "precious little education, even for the others, is now going...