Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brash young managers of "gogo" mutual funds have gone farther faster than 36-year-old Frederick S. Mates. His $32 million Mates Investment Fund has risen 153% in per-share asset value since the beginning of 1968, the highest growth rate of any fund. A onetime English teacher who learned how money talks in 13 years as a highly successful market analyst and big-account broker, Mates is truly the personification of self-confidence. On one wall of his office, he keeps a framed parody of an old Wall Street slogan: "Invest, Then Investigate...
...Preacher-Teachers. Like Christ, he preaches to publicans and sinners, synonyms for playgoers. All the preacher-teacher-playwrights - Ibsen, Shaw, Arthur Miller-are gluttons for sinners. They want converts streaming up the aisles to purify the world. They are all moral abolitionists who, despite their obvious love of the theater, confuse drama with reform and statecraft. They write Plays to Abolish Things By-poverty, prejudice, war, injustice, capitalism, moral obliquity. This is the dramatic form of preventive medicine, and it has never averted a single plague that mankind is heir...
...achieve dominion and power over the second largest city in the nation. In the Minnesota Theatre Company's production, currently visiting Broadway, Robin Gammell is delightfully disjointed as Ui, but as a Nazi he is just a lovable softy. He couldn't throw a spitball at the teacher, let alone murder his best friend. By contrast, Christopher Plummer's performance in 1963 was chillingly demonic. The rest of the cast preserves the company's formidable reputation for inadequacy. It is just as well that Brecht did not live to see this production...
...later years, Bach gradually turned away from church composition and developed an even more austere and adventurous secular idiom, seemingly for his own satisfaction. He had always been a teacher, first to his children and then to paying pupils. He was one of the first keyboard instructors to introduce the use of the thumb and to advocate playing with curved rather than straight fingers. He told his composition students that contrapuntal lines should be like people in a conversation-each speaking grammatically, completing his sentences and remaining silent when he had nothing to add. Now, in the compositions...
...from rich harmonic modulations toward more basic cadences, and from daring elaboration toward the cultivation of controlled elegance. Bach's composer sons-notably Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christian and Wilhelm Friedemann -were all attracted to this style. After his death, Bach was mourned as a fine organist and teacher, but for 70 years his reputation as a composer was kept alive only by a few enthusiasts and composers, notably Mozart and Beethoven...