Word: teacher
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...great teacher, Kelleher, said that whenever a girl child is born, and she looks up and sees her father peering dreamily into the crib, one word forms in her mind: sucker. I have never minded that either...
...first and most influential acting teacher, Stella Adler, thought him "the most keenly aware, the most empathetic human being alive," yet thought his commitment to acting was, at best, "touch and go." But the work, the community he found among New York's eager young actors, gave shy, sly Bud Brando two things he never had before--a sense of identity and a sense of direction...
Born in 1882 in Oranienbaum, Russia, a city southwest of St. Petersburg, Stravinsky was rooted in the nationalistic school that drew inspiration from Russia's beautifully expressive folk music. His father was an opera singer who performed in Kiev and St. Petersburg, but his greatest musical influence was his teacher, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. The colorful, fantastic orchestration that Stravinsky brought to his folk song-inspired melodies was clearly derived from Rimsky-Korsakov. But the primitive, offbeat rhythmic drive he added was entirely his own. The result was a music never before heard in a theater or concert hall...
...found ourselves rather depleted in course offerings [with the recent departures and planned leaves]," said Leo Damrosch, chair of the English department. "Barbara Freeman has been a very popular teacher and an excellent colleague and we were delighted when the Dean [of the Faculty] agreed that she might teach in our department for one more year...
Robin A. Harris, a sixth-grade teacher at the Benjamin Banneker Charter School in Cambridge and a member of the committee in 1994-95, ousted incumbent Alfred B. Fantini in the election by a margin of only 200 votes...