Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teacher possesses a humility and simplicity that contrast dramatically with the haughty demeanor of the Shah. "Here there is no professor-student relationship," says a pupil. "What we have is dialogue. We sit as equals with him, staying until we have mastered a series of books on Islam. It is age, learning and holiness that distinguish him from the rest of us." But Sharietmadari is also tough and politically canny. He opposes the regime for many reasons, including its record of torture, censorship and bribery. Despite his public modesty, he displays total confidence about his status among his 32 million...
Henry Robinson, president of the Boston Teacher's Union, had recommended that the teachers reject the contract offer and predicted after a voice vote and show of hands earlier yesterday that the secret ballot vote would call for a strike...
...sports activities so that everyone plays and no one loses. In a version of "new volleyball," the aim is to keep the ball from hitting the ground rather than to score points by zinging it at the feet of opponents across the net. Says Jeff McKay, a San Francisco teacher and baseball coach who subscribes to the foundation's theory of no winners or losers: "If the game doesn't fit the players, we change the game, not the players...
Nonetheless, The Paper Chase is unlikely to tax the minds of viewers. Based on a negligible 1973 movie (which won Houseman an Oscar as best supporting actor), the series is a high-minded exercise in old-school TV sentimentality-a sort of Teacher Knows Best. Houseman plays a legendary professor whose stony exterior belies a heart as big as a lecture hall. He is surrounded by a bevy of students (one farm boy, one city slicker, one feisty woman) who try to curry his favor and share his wisdom. Since the first episode recounts virtually the entire plot...
...waiting world was surprised, then pleased by the new Pope, a lifelong pastor and teacher who seemed to show a rare blend of strength and humility, a fine gift for words, a reassuring balance between kindness and worldly practicality. But how had he come to be chosen? And why? Had some kind of secret combine among the Princes of the Church brought Luciani to the fore? Or a compromise that, despite formal assertions of happiness, really left nobody happy...