Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street from the charred foundation of a store razed in last year's riots, the author of What Makes Sammy Run? sits down for three hours with a small group of ghetto-scarred Negroes and teaches them how to write poetry, plays, short stories and novels. A onetime teacher of creative writing at Columbia, Schulberg says that their writing ability is "so much higher than my group of college students...
...almost every standard-teacher training, library facilities, lab courses and classroom quality-separation of the races works out to the Negroes' disadvantage. Nationwide, in primary grades, there are 32 students in the average Negro classroom, 29 in mostly white schools. In secondary schools, Negro pupils are less likely to have a chemistry or physics lab; judged by nationwide test scores, teachers in Negro schools are educationally less qualified than those in white ones. Standard achievement tests show that by the sixth grade, a Negro in the metropolitan Northeast is 1.6 grades behind his white counterpart; by the twelfth grade...
...late 1930s, with the advent of the unmelodic twelve-tone school of Arnold Schoenberg, Ansermet saw darkness. Atonality, he declared, was not music. Drawing on his early background as a mathematics teacher, Ansermet published a complex tome that sought to prove "by mathematical formulas that the strict twelve-tone system is entirely opposed to the laws of hearing...
...Rice for Teacher. Civilservants appear at the office only long enough to sign in, spend most of the day doing other jobs, such as driving taxis or peddling their influence. Clerks and secretaries cart away office supplies to sell on the black market. Chauffeurs and bus drivers put in extra hours hauling passengers for themselves, pick up extra pocket money by siphoning gasoline from their tanks and selling it. Soldiers set up roadblocks to exact a few rupiahs from every passing vehicle. Schools are supposedly free, but teachers expect donations of money or rice from their students. At ports, longshoremen...
...probably doesn't know the meaning of the word. Son of a Berlin piano teacher who immigrated to the U.S. when Andre was nine, he has made a success of all the many keys he touched. Previn studied classical music under Italian Composer-Conductor Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, did considerable moonlighting in Hollywood, "cheating every minute." With a friend, Composer Lukas Foss, he recorded all the four-hand piano music of Mozart. He wrote a symphony and a quantity of piano works and chamber music. He did the arrangements for several bestselling jazz albums. And he fared well as guest...