Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class is the pianist Sir Thomas approached at week's end. He asked Pianist Artur Schnabel, perhaps the top living interpreter of Beethoven and Mozart, to play with the Royal Philharmonic next month. Schnabel, who was once Lady Beecham's teacher, declined. He was, he said, leaving London the next day. But, he added slyly, "if it were possible, I would have liked to have taken a chance on a Mozart concerto...
...emergency Navy Pier campus he had made available for 3,800 ex-G.I.s, to Urbana-Champaign, 120 miles away, where he educates 18,500 more students. The high point of the day was a speech by Veterans Administrator Omar Bradley, a Stoddard friend and an old math teacher himself...
Torment. A well-told Swedish melodrama about a schoolboy, a girl and a psychoneurotic teacher (TIME, April...
...teacher doesn't have a good time while he's teaching," the professor says, "no one else does," and practices what he preaches by thoroughly enjoying each lecture. His mimicry, pantomime, and caustic remarks on every topic in the all-inclusive course resurrect authors and characters alike, and although the amours of the Cavalier poets may not appear on the final examination, few open-minded listeners object to his treatment of them. All but the most serious grinds have been able to consider a "hot" lecture as "atmosphere...
...save petrol) to teach his Sunday-school class. The Reverend J. Eric Dixon does not consider Arthur an unmixed blessing. "The press," he snorts, "is always down here badgering us. That's why it's such a bad Sunday school." But the children climb all over the teacher. Chirped little Peter Robinson: "He's a real smasher...