Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Green was dismayed by the prevalence of drugs, weapons and racial tensions in the New York schools. He suspended two community school boards tainted by corruption. He was disillusioned when only 6% of voters cast ballots for board members. Last week a school administrator and a teacher were arrested for selling cocaine, and the trial of a principal accused of buying crack ended in a hung jury...
...races dangerously close to the water, reaching out for the title symbol. As she leaves home in the final sequence, another rainbow arches above her, beckoning her onward. In between, she experiments with lesbian and heterosexual lovers (Amanda Donohoe and Paul McGann, respectively), endures a bleak passage as a teacher in a working-class school and witnesses the end of an Edenesque England. All these experiences test her, stir her questing spirit and lead her finally to feminist independence, which was never more attractively stated than it was in these early, innocent days...
...stereotypical minor characters. An aged British aunt spits out attacks on the Victorian era on her deathbed. A poor little rich girl buys a yacht to rescue Carlotta and Zede from prison, and, after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter away to the capital. The daughter is sent to the Sorbonne but rejects...
...attention from a young girl who said, "There are others of us. There are some of us who work the hardest. I'm in a class for slow learners." And so we arranged for the motorcade to stop, and this girl had been positioned out there with her teacher. When we drove away -- just tears streaming down her face, the tears. I read her letter, kind of choked up. It was a beautiful thing that the girl had petitioned her President and that in some way we were at least able to respond. When I mentioned her later in this...
...Wendorf has the combination of talents necessary to be Librarian of Houghton Library," Feng said. "As a scholar, he understands the use of the library in the scholarly research environment, and as a teacher, he particularly cares about education for undergraduates...