Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considered myself too old for this kind of disillusionment. As a freshman at my over-whelmingly white, exclusive private school, I took a course in a dry subject with the wittiest and most amusing teacher there. Like everyone else, I secretly adored him and desperately wanted to talk to him after class. Near term's end I finally got up the courage to approach him with a question. Within minutes he had broached the subject of sickle cell anemia. At fourteeen, I was completely paralyzed with humiliation. For a split-second I wanted not to be black. I wanted...
Bentz's new scrape with the law has not dampened Leyrer's enthusiasm for the course or for its teacher...
Would Leyrer take Bentz back again? "I'd certainly consider it," said the law official. Bentz's righteously aggrieved comment is what might be expected from an unappreciated teacher...
Popes speak and write continually and are variously heard and taken to heart. After his inauguration last fall John Paul II swiftly showed that he would be an activist teacher. His first speech endorsed both doctrinal conservatism and the reforms that grew out of the Second Vatican Council. Then in Latin America he demonstrated a blunt willingness to confront the theology of liberation and define just how priests should, and should not, pursue social justice. Last week he presented his first encyclical, a formal policy-setting letter from the Pope to the church and the world...
Arkansas Governor William Clinton has proposed an increase of 14% for teachers, contending that the raise is completely justified because teacher salaries in his state (current average: $11,146) are among the very lowest in the nation. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards says that he will seek a 10% increase for all state employees...