Word: teacher
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...daughter of Harry Ellis Dickson, a former violinist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the retired associate director of the Boston Pops. Her home was a lively one, with musicians and artists as frequent guests. At an early age she took up modern dance, and later became a teacher of it. Her nickname comes from her mother's friend, the vivacious actress Kitty Carlisle Hart...
...Upon the teacher's effort hinges the fate of the whole town. For in the distant past, an evil aristocrat put the town under a spell that, ever since, has rendered everyone in the town both mindless and unable to love. The only way the spell can be broken is if either a member of the Zubrisky family marries someone of the aristocrat's line, or if someone can educate Sophia. If the teacher fails to do so within 24 hours, the age-old curse will strike the promising intellectual as dumb and loveless as his pupil...
...authority over associates, nearly all of them Jews. His colleagues appear to have been a touchy lot. Minor disputes frequently ended in nasty breakups and castings- out. But Freud's greatest distress came in dealing with Carl Jung, the son of a Swiss pastor, whose differences with his Viennese teacher had origins in the varying perspectives of Christianity and Judaism. Gay describes two meetings with Jung at which Freud fainted...
Paige, a math teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, said she was glad that Harvard finally committed itself to the Cambridge community. "When I was at Radcliffe in 1975, there was no emphasis on Harvard's commitment to education in the Cambridge community," she said...
...burgeoning contingent of Asian performers also boasts the tiny 16-year- old Japanese prodigy Midori (born Midori Goto), a student of noted Violin Teacher Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard. Midori's robust tone and strong technique -- and her uncanny composure in the face of two broken strings during her performance of Leonard Bernstein's Serenade -- stunned a Tanglewood audience on a muggy summer night two years ago at a Boston Symphony concert led by Bernstein...