Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Solzhenitsyn and other Russian authors banned or banished in their own country; of cancer; in Oxford, England. A natural linguist, Hayward taught himself Russian as a teen-ager by plowing through an untranslated tome on gypsies. Between studying at Oxford in the '40s and returning there to teach in 1956, he spent two years in the British embassy in Moscow, where he developed a passionate concern for the literary culture stricken by Stalin's purges. He eventually became, said a colleague, "the custodian of Russian literature in the West...
Seiji Ozawa dreams big. "I am Japanese," he says. "But I was born in China. Somehow I became a Western musician. My dream has been to come to China, me and the Boston Symphony, to play and teach and learn." Last week a Pan Am 747 with 157 people and 35,000 Ibs. of baggage, musical instruments and equipment touched down in Shanghai. B.S.O. Conductor Ozawa hurled himself forward to meet the weary orchestra, which he had preceded into the country...
...February 17, Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xaioping attempted to carry out his threat to "teach Vietnam a bloody lesson" (Workers Vanguard, March 2, 1979) as Chinese troops marched across the border into Vietnam. Although China's troops are now withdrawing, having failed in their "lesson", the political implications of the invasions must be made clear...
...following morning the President was up early and off to teach a Bible class at the First Baptist Church, where he brooded aloud about the impasse. In the next few hours the idea of a pilgrimage to the Middle East took root. Again, there was the feeling that it was something inside Carter that he could not deny himself...
...most Faculty members came to Bowersock's defense. Wallace T. MaCaffrey, professor of History, supported the reforms, acknowledging that in the past professors have allotted minimal time to tutorial instruction, "Students must have the impression that a professor's capacity to teach tutorial vanishes with the onset of middle age," he added...