Word: teachers
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Died. Rosina Lhevinne, 96, concert pianist and legendary teacher of such artists as Van Cliburn and Misha Dichter; of a stroke; in Glendale, Calif...
Hayakawa, a teacher and a writer on semantics, had been best known for his trademark tam-o'-shanter and his boldness in quelling dissident student demonstrators during the turbulent late '60s when he was president of San Francisco State College. On the issues, he sounded more or less right wing and eccentric. Once he called for sending unarmed U.S. troops "who could be armed if necessary" to southern Africa under U.N. auspices to prevent a bloodbath there. He expressed open disdain for homosexuals and expressed misgivings about a California law prohibiting business collusion with the Arab boycott...
...able but low-key Esch, 49, entered Congress with Riegle in 1967 when both were Republicans (Riegle switched parties in 1973). Though a former speech teacher, Esch was no match for his foe as a speaker, or in stirring interest in the issues, on most of which he is more conservative than Riegle-an activist liberal and author of an expose of Washington called O Congress. Perhaps Don Riegle's biggest plus: the support of organized labor, which had opposed him in the primary as a Donnie-come-lately...
...have up his sleeve is a couple of pairs, one of your everyday unbalanced domestic quadrangles, in fact. Jerry loves Sally Mathias-and Ruth Conant, but is married only to Ruth. Sally loves herself and Jerry-but is married to Richard Mathias. Richard, who sees himself as "a teacher of worldliness," once had a brief, slick affair with Ruth...
...teacher, nicely played by Betty Buckley, rescues her and punishes her tormentors with extrastrenuous work outs, which naturally leads the dear chil dren to plot still deeper humiliation for Carrie. The idea is to rig her election as prom queen and destroy her at her moment of unexpected triumph...