Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were escorted up the hill by a group of uniformed school kids entranced by Tom's sunglasses (every little kid we met on the trip, in the smallest, remotest villages, yelled "Rambo!" when he caught a look at Tom's shades). They introduced us to U Revata, their English teacher at the East Gondalon monastery on Sagaing Hill...
...dapper, pun-prone host of Public Broadcasting Service's Wall $treet Week, Louis Rukeyser instructs his 10 million viewers on how to invest their money. Now the Internal Revenue Service is suggesting that the teacher may need some lessons of his own. The agency is demanding more than $400,000 in back taxes and penalties from Rukeyser and his wife Alexandra...
...what they write. But on the screen the eye sees an irrefutable "reality" that compellingly overrides whatever the ear is being told. This is what makes television so powerful, and on occasion so worrisome. As shown, Rita Tikhonova, the model 21-year-old Moscow student who becomes a teacher, is a real and sympathetic individual. The unstated implication is that she also is typical. The people shown were to a degree handpicked, but BBC Producer Richard Denton was at least able to interview them without his Soviet guides being present. However, he quickly concedes, "they've been coached all their...
...said, "that the First Amendment does not permit the state to require that teaching and learning must be tailored to the principles or prohibitions of any religious sect or dogma." Ironically, the reasoning was used to strike down an Arkansas statute patterned after the Tennessee law that snared Science Teacher Scopes...
...addition, photo captions accompanying the story incorrectly identified Richard Kaufman, who is an instructor with the Soviet program. And the full name of another Soviet teacher is Nikolay Igorevich Kikets...