Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publisher of the Naples Daily News, contributes on trombone, along with Jim Kalvin, a marina owner, Michael Isabella, an embroidery manufacturer, and Scott Wise, a salesman. Two other salesmen, Roger Park and Steve Chamberlain, address their chops to trumpets, in the company of Mark Branson, a high school music teacher, Mark Fessenden, a florist, and Glen Harcus, a racing-car manufacturer. On bass is Dick Burchell, a salesman, and on piano is Dan Stefanko, a music teacher. The vocalist is Dante Lupi, from Astoria, in Queens, N.Y. -- "I went to school with Tony Bennett's cousin" -- the manager...
...similar spirit moves in his actors. Hackman is wonderful as an inarticulate man tense with the struggle to curb a flaring, mysterious anger. Barbara Hershey is just as fine as a teacher trying to put a dispassionate face on a passionate nature. And Dennis Hopper brings some fresh, forceful observation and a jittery melancholy to his characterization of a onetime star athlete who has become the town drunk. There is a quirky authenticity about these figures, and the landscape they inhabit, that one does not expect to find in movies whose chief business is to warm the heart...
...decisive force -- the people." Yet those people are reluctant to join a revolution that may someday be reversed by another leader. The state, for example, has been encouraging moonlighting service operations to register as part of a program to bring the underground economy into the open. But a Moscow teacher who offers tutoring lessons in her free time admits that she is not about to step forward. Says she: "What if the party line changes and goes against private enterprise? If you register, they'll have a list of 'capitalists' to arrest...
Some graduates continue in the field of their undergraduate work. Perhaps some of the passages in "West Side Story" were developed while Leonard Bernstein '39 was writing his thesis on "The Absorption of Race Elements into American Music". The conductor, pianist, composer and teacher penciled on the back of one of the pages, "I wonder what critics in 1975 will have to say on a young American composer...
Early in 1979, unable to settle on a new general manager to lead them out of the wilderness, the Maras had a myopic former high school history teacher pressed upon them by the exasperated league. His name was George Young, and his philosophy was rooted in the Old Testament. "You need a strong defense and a good running game," he preached, "because in the second half of the season God sends you bad weather." In turn, he hired Coaches Ray Perkins and Bill Parcells; Parcells took...