Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Butlers, who are putting two of their children through college, have made thrift the corner stone of their lives. "I'm always looking to use something in a creative way," says Mrs. Butler, 57, who works as a school teacher's aide. "I never buy anything that I can make for myself." She has recycled melted wax into candles, wraps gifts in old newspapers and never buys on credit. Still, the Butlers have been unable to set aside funds for retirement. "We had hoped that we would travel after we retired," says Mrs. Butler...
Cast as an indomitable spinster teacher in the pre-World War I South, indomitable Bette Davis was hard at rehearsals last week for Miss Moffat, her first stage role in 13 years. The Broadway-bound production, which opens in Baltimore next month, is a musical adaptation of Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green, in which Davis first starred for Warner Bros, back in 1945. "I'm delighted to have an opportunity to play the character again because now I look the right age," says Davis, 66, who has been working steadily through lunch and cigarette breaks...
...teachings on abortion. On the steps of Immaculate Conception Church, whose doors were firmly locked, O'Rourke baptized Nathaniel Ryan Morreale with the ancient formula, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Bill Baird, a former Sunday school teacher who now professes "no formal religion," was invited to make a sign of the cross on the child's forehead...
...California State College, 65 miles south of Pittsburgh, the sociology professor was one of the most valued and popular members of the faculty, despite his missing an occasional morning class. At Bronx Community College in New York City, students were particularly fond of their social-science teacher, although he was sometimes late for his classes. At the State University of New York at New Paltz, some 70 miles north of The Bronx, a new sociology professor earned the reputation of being a diligent and effective, if sometimes tardy, teacher. Last week, when the New Paltz sociology professor resigned from...
Even Griffith, who spent many years as a Brooklyn teacher, once placed a sign above his blackboard admonishing: "There's no joy in Jersey." But Griffith takes no pride in having helped put the kibosh on the dialect. "Brooklynese had a bluntness and homeliness," he says. "There is a real joy in variety. Now we're becoming phonetically homogeneous." And that, as they used to say in Brooklyn, is for da boids...