Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wedding of theory and practice is always the teacher's dream, and Professor Allport recently demonstrated his skill at combining them by presenting a Social Relations 1a lecture on Crowd Psychology in terms of a revival meeting once held in Boston by the eminently practical Aimee Semple MacPherson. Even the professional resenters of classroom humor avowed it was better than the comics, but, unobtrusively, each step in Aimee's spellbinding was made to correspond to a formidable chunk of psychological verbiage...
...keep his instruments in tune he seldom turns on the radiator ("My friends stay away in the winter to keep from catching cold"). He plays Bach and Mozart with a hard, dry purity-and sometimes, say critics, with a little too much banging. He long ago broke with Teacher Landowska, whose playing is more showy and dramatic. Says Kirkpatrick starchily: "Landowska is a great artist. But other artists take different ways. It generally means a break." Wanda Landowska also long ago stopped speaking of Kirkpatrick as her pupil. Says she: "Shall we say, my pupils must be my friends...
...born Neutra (pronounced Noytra) had come a long way from his first assignment in 1915: a tea house for the fortress of Trebinje, Herzegovina. Neutra came to the U.S. in 1923, sat at the feet of famed Skyscraper Architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modern, functional architecture and the teacher of Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Jennie Tourel is the daughter of a traveling Russian businessman and "was born in Montreal by accident." She lived most of her life in Paris. At first, studying singing, she couldn't agree with a voice teacher who "put me in the mouth some kind of apparatus to teach me voice production." Then she found a coach who told her to sing as if she were reciting a poem, and that solved phrasing...
Some of the reasons: New York public schools are overcrowded (in one last fall, children had to squat on tin pails and fruit baskets for lack of chairs, and every day, because of the teacher shortage, hundreds of classes go "uncovered." i.e., teacherless). Many schools are shy of up-to-date textbooks. A $38,000,000 building program is still largely in the blueprint stage, and schoolhouses are dangerously decrepit (said Mayor William O'Dwyer: "Those old Civil War firetraps are ghastly"). Above all, parents don't want their boys & girls to pick up the "dese-&-dose" accent...