Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author is an expert on the painting of the 18th and 19th centuries and a teacher at London's Courtauld Institute of Art. Her six previous novels include Hotel du Lac, the 1984 winner of Britain's top fiction award, the Booker Prize. Yet despite her finished style and genteel settings, she is as hard-boiled as any writer of detective fiction. Many of Brookner's principals are updatings of that familiar character, the English spinster as connoisseur of other people's behavior. Rachel is not only unattached but detached, a state that suits her analytical intelligence and chilly rectitude...
...Though he has fought for such causes as consumers' rights, he seems to have put on his hand-me-down populism like the work shirts he donned for his new TV ads. Far more than even Richard Gephardt, Gore is an insider among the media and power elite, the teacher's pet of the Georgetown...
...Teachers agree. "I desperately need them [volunteers,]" says Piret. In past years, the Rindge teacher has had volunteers from the Divinity School and undergraduate tutors from PBH. She is currently working with a Harvard sophomore in one of her bilingual education classes. "The situation I'm in requires each student getting individual attention. If I can handle the most difficult children and give one or two to volunteers, the load is off me," she says...
...time I put into training the tutors is given back to the students 10 times over," says another Rindge bilingual and special education teacher, Barbara Clemons, who has had tutors from Harvard in past years. "I am only one person and without volunteers the students would not get the same amount of attention," she says...
...circumstances can make such a progression difficult. "It depends if you're tutoring within the confines of a school day," says Quincy House HAND Co-Chairman Nina R. Schwalbe '88-89, who tutors Russian at Rindge. "If so, the kids will see you as more of a teacher...