Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Society of the Ancient Instruments, whose recordings have long been treasured by chamber-music addicts, is a nonprofit labor of love. It is the creation of a little grey-maned, Dutch-born music teacher named Ben Stad. Conductor Stad, 59, came to the U.S. in 1908, eventually founded Philadelphia's Institute of Musical Art. Some 20 years ago, it occurred to him that modern instruments like the piano and violin were not suited to the music written for harpsichord and viole d'amour during the 17th and 18th Centuries. This idea was the beginning of Ben Stad...
...dearly loved, but not indiscriminately worshipped. She develops, and overcomes, a stony hostility towards her bitter, pennypinching mother. She endures her father's piteous death and-in a bold, overloaded sequence-watches her mother writhe in childbed. Through such experiences, and with the help of a kind teacher, she begins to transmute her weakness for fantasy-building into the tempered imagination of a writer...
...Against It." He had left the school in charge of furtive, soft-voiced John K. Wolcott, a 61-year-old chaplain-teacher. He had no help except a young teacher named Robert Newton. Last week the Reverend Mr. Wolcott, who has worked for Duncan for years but says he has not been paid since last spring, offered feeble excuses for the lack of sheets ("It's too cold for sheets"), the lack of heat ("There's no law you have to keep a school piping hot"), the single dining-study-play room ("I don't think there...
...years ago Christopher Isherwood was one of the most promising of younger English novelists, and a member of the radical, pacifist literary set sometimes known as "the Auden circle." Now, thinking seriously of becoming a swami (religious teacher), he is studying in a Hindu temple in Hollywood, Calif...
Cornel Wilde, a much-publicized new-comer to Hollywood, is very acceptable in the role of Chopin, and Paul Muni as the composer's lovable, bewhiskered piano teacher gives the picture that certain touch which sometimes means the difference between a mediocre and a first-rate production. In a performance perhaps worthy of award recognition, he changes rapidly from pathos to humor and frequently lifts the action to heights of emotional impact...