Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minister of Education Manuel Gual Vidal had some cheering year-end news: in the three years of Mexico's "each one teach one" campaign (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946), almost 1,100,000 illiterates had been taught to read & write...
...music." He picks his "varsity" choir first for knowledge of musical theory, then for ability to sight-read and lastly for voice. When most of his best singers flunked the theory test, he got his own teacher, Juilliard's Julius Herford, to teach them in one-night-a-week classes...
Sarah Gibson Blanding, president of Vassar, told the readers of Woman's Home Companion what she would do "if I were president of a men's college." Said she: "It is just as important to teach the fundamentals of home economics, budgeting, marriage and child psychology to students at Yale, Harvard and Princeton as to those of Vassar, Smith and Bryn Mawr. After all, it takes two persons to make a family...
...life as an Army brat, trailing his father, an infantry officer, from post to post, getting a lick-&-a-promise schooling. At West Point, John managed the lacrosse team and was president of the class of '35. Four years later, he went back to the Point to teach history...
...singers he could mold in his own way: stressing first expressiveness, then diction, and lastly voice. He had heard the Philadelphia La Scala Soprano Herva Nelli sing last summer, and announced, "This is Desdemona." She told him she had never sung the role. Toscanini snapped: "Good. I'll teach you myself." He drilled the Metropolitan's brilliant new baritone, Giuseppe Valdengo (a graduate of the New York City Opera Co.), for two hours on the proper way to sing just two words-"non so"-at a crucial spot in the play...