Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years as a Near East teacher, which ended last week when he returned to the U.S. to retire, 59-year-old Bayard Dodge had repeated that Good Samaritan act many times and in many ways. It was an act he more than walked through. Son of the copper-rich Dodges, he followed the family path to Princeton but swerved off to study theology. On a Wanderjahr around the world in 1908, Bayard stopped off at the American University of Beirut, in the Lebanon. There he met his childhood friend, Mary Bliss, granddaughter of the university's founder and first...
...eared, sardonic lowan of 42, Harvard cum laude Author Duncan spent ten years on Gus the Great and was nearly broke much of the time. An itinerant writer, teacher and Chautauqua actor, he is the author of three previous novels, all poor sellers. He retired to a trailer to finish Gus the Great, wandering through the West and Southwest. When the money ran low, Duncan hacked out short stories on a 1924 Corona; his wife, Actea, took a secretarial job. The Duncans' first purchase with their new riches: a shiny new Chrysler convertible...
...teacher genuinely loves poetry but cannot communicate his love to others. "I am inclined to believe that this is the worst of the lot. He loves poetry-obviously-yet all he can do is to make it sound ridiculous. 'Listen to this, boys ' he says. 'Isn't it beautiful?' And he proceeds to quack or mouth or bleat out something which is a travesty of the beauty which has truly moved him. ... He is addicted to giving classes poems to learn by heart . . . I was put off Milton for years by a fool who made...
Faced with a class of 40 or 50 bloodthirsty, ten-year-old savages, what is the poor poetry teacher to do? Strong's secrets: pick poems on subjects that will interest the pupils; stress sound and rhythm ("Vachel Lindsay will help you a great deal"); don't be afraid of noise ("let them say it with all the ferocity they can manage"); keep explanation and annotation to a minimum ("I have heard more than once a heartfelt cry, 'Oh, sir, please don't explain it!' "); never do violence to a child's feelings...
...dressing room just big enough to hold her, a short, stout and bespectacled Negro woman stepped onto the two-by-four stage. The prim expression on her flat face was that of a Sunday school teacher lost in a gin mill and primed to bawl out the customers. Seconds later, her ample hips bouncing, her abdomen lewdly rolling, she was shouting the blues at the top of her voice. Last week, after a 17-year absence, Bertha ("Chippie") Hill was back at her old trade. To Manhattan's smoke-filled Village Vanguard, deep in a Greenwich Village cellar...