Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light-sensitive fungus that grows on horse dung-"a rather bawdy little fungus," according to Jonathan Wolken, who met the word and the fungus while studying biology at Dartmouth a few years ago. Wolken also studied modern dance, in an unserious way, in the class of a young teacher named Alison Chase. When he and Classmate Moses Pendleton found, to their total astonishment, that the strange gymnastic writhings they were inventing led to coherent routines, and then to the formation of a small dance troupe, the carefully unserious name for the new enterprise was at hand. Calling their troupe Pilobolus...
When known counseling methods fail, the child should be taken from its parents. With a rueful laugh Belisle recalls that when his own daughter was in first grade and the teacher asked what her father did, she replied, "My daddy swipes kids." Separating child from family is always a horrifying and legally difficult matter. "It's like being a member of the Gestapo," says Belisle. "As bad as you know the parents are, there they stand, in the doorway, screaming 'I love my child.' The neighbors gather, whispering and pointing. The mother starts calling you four-letter...
...long time, he was probably the most effective, stimulating, challenging and inspiring teacher we had at Harvard," Thomas C. Schelling '48, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, said yesterday. Students and colleagues acclaimed Gerschenkronfor his personal style of teaching as well as his scholarship. "He was responsible for starting the careers of a great many of the economic historians in this country," James S. Duesenberry, Maier Professor of Money and Banking, said yesterday...
...Oscar in 1970; by his own hand, after apparently shooting and killing his fifth wife, Kim Schmidt, 31, three weeks after their marriage; in Manhattan. Typecast as a second leading man who never won the girl, Young was acclaimed for his roles in Come Fill the Cup (1951) and Teacher...
...past two decades he has been a leader in the drive to create artificial intelligence through computer technology. Says he: "My mind works according to laws and mechanisms, not some mysterious mind fluid." In his 29 years at CMU, Simon has proved a talented administrator and teacher. A painter and pianist, Simon also served on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Lyndon Johnson...