Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple who dropped out, Peter and Lindsay Ainsworth, could not agree more. The Ainsworths-he is a former union official, she is a hairdresser and yoga teacher-are vegetarians, and nettled their fellow Iron Agers by refusing to kill animals or eat meat. Lindsay resented some of the restrictions. One rule barred beverages between mealtimes, because there was no evidence that Iron Age people snacked...
...couples feel that an opportunity for both husband and wife to enjoy equally interesting jobs on the same campus more than makes up for having to split a single salary or, in some cases, depending on the course load, a salary and a half. James Carley, 31, a teacher of medieval literature who shares an appointment with his wife Marjorie Woods, 30, at the University of Rochester, has no trouble rationalizing the situation. Says he: "A traditional academic couple?the husband teaching, the wife at home?would get only one salary anyway." Another advantage of job sharing is the flexibility...
DIED. Phyllis McGinley, 72, Pulitzer-prize-winning poet, essayist and author of children's stories; of a stroke; in Manhattan. After a lonely childhood as the daughter of an unsuccessful land speculator, McGinley moved to New York, took a job as a junior high school English teacher, and began selling poems to literary magazines. Asked by New Yorker Fiction Editor Katherine White, "Why do you sing the same sad songs all lady poets sing?" McGinley began to find her own voice and to extol the pleasures and poignancies of the hearth, Memorial Day parades, the smell of charcoal grills...
...very formidable obstacles. The opening scene loses no time in explaining why the cards will be stacked against Gavino for the better part of his life. Storming into Gavino's grammar school classroom, shepherd's staff in hand, Efisio demands custody of his son. He tells Gavino's awestruck teacher that the boy is more urgently needed in the fields with the family flock than behind a desk with a book, summing up his view of education by declaring, "There's no such thing as compulsory education; only poverty is compulsory." Hardly the conventional childhood of a man of belles...
Well, he puts the tacks on teacher's chair...