Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kasper is largely self-taught. He took only one shop class, back in seventh grade. "Mr. Castellano was the teacher--dead now, I think. He used to drink a lot of rye during class...
...many friends. The usual types huddled around the bandstand: the Boy Scout leader, remembering for anyone who would listen that Eddie hadn't made it all the way to Eagle Scout, but had always been such "an aggressive little kid"; his wife, once Eddie's Sunday school teacher, concurring in the verdict of aggressiveness; the college football buddy, the one who remembered King in his days as a guard for Boston College in the late '40's. This last one held some promise, perhaps a quote that would bolster the ready-mixed comparison between two politicians bred in the offensive...
...mood of humility, the Shah launched a campaign of reconciliation with his religious opponents. He brought home his ambassador to the U.S., Ardeshir Zahedi, to open a dialogue with dissident mullahs. Sharif-Emami was expected to call this week on Ayatullah Sharietmadari, 76, the religious teacher who is regarded as the most powerful spokesman for the Shi'ite opposition. In addition, Ayatullah Khomeini, 80, a popular mullah exiled in Iraq since 1963, might be permitted to return home if he disavows the overthrow of the Shah...
...magazine's first contributors. Within a few years (and a few pages) a lot of poets are sounding like Pound. The muse seems hardly to notice World War I; the next conflagration receives extended attention from writers as diverse as Randall Jarrell, Karl Shapiro and Robinson Jeffers. Teacher-poets appear in the '30s and '40s: R.P. Blackmur, William Empson, Allen Tate. A generation later is heard the dry academic rustle of those they taught...
...years after the worst antibusing acrimony, South Boston High School, now 41% black, opened peacefully. Suspensions have dropped from 1,800 in 1976 to 275 last year. An intensive school-within-a-school system helps coach slow learners. But achievement scores are still way down, and critics complain that teacher are mainly "peacemakers and babysitters." Says Mary Ellen Smith of the City-wide Education Coalition, a probusing group: "The issue in Boston is no longer where kids go to school or the race o their classmates, but whether the public schools can offer a quality education.' That issue confronts...