Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unanimous decision to give Caves the award. There aren't enough superlatives to describe him as a teacher," Thomas A. Pugel, one of the five second-year Economics graduate students that the comprise the Galbraith Prize Committee, said yesterday...
...teacher is an old pro, Eddie Waters (Jimmy Jewel), whose last laugh seems to have long been buried in the creases of his face. As his pupils sprint apprehensively through their routines -ethnic, absurd one liners, godawful -Eddie offers his philosophy of comedy: "A real comedian dares to see what his listeners shy away from, fear to express. A joke releases the tension, but a true joke has to do more than release tension, it has to liberate the will and the desire, it has to change the situation...
...played by Chris Sarandon (the transvestite of Dog Day Afternoon), the rapist does not fit the profile of the typical sex offender, a street punk making his way up from petty theft to murder. No, he is Margaux's kid sister's music teacher, soliciting her influence to gain a hearing for his electronic compositions. Nor is his attack a brutish lunge out of the dark. The rape is strictly high fashion - a handsome bedroom setting, the victim tied prettily with silk scarves while he sodomizes her, the whole busi ness staged and photographed with stylish prurience...
...young patient talks to his visitors-including his parents and a teacher who comes to help him with school-work every afternoon-through the open doorway or a transparent plastic barrier; this wall has two sleeve-and-glove arrangements that allow people to reach into the room and play checkers or cards with Teddy without contaminating him. Books, magazines and games-sterilized by steam or gases -are passed into the room through the doorway. Food, too, must be specially prepared. Even Teddy's favorite fare, pizza, is so thoroughly baked that it is practically unrecognizable...
...desert, then ruled the church until 1971 as Pope Kyrillos VI. He reformed the monasteries through renewed austerity and discipline. The second was Kyrillos' successor, Antonius as Suriani, who currently heads the church as Pope Shenouda lII. Before becoming a monk, Pope Shenouda was once a lay teacher in the Coptic Sunday school movement, another church development that inspired renewed interest in monasticism. Even now Pope Shenouda retires each week to a mud-stuccoed hut in the des ert for a day or more of meditation and prayer...