Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most progressive steps has been to bring cancer out of the back bedroom into the clinic. But it has been necessary to teach people that cancer is not directly transmitted from parent to child, and can be mentioned in newspaper obituaries without stigma; that it does not stem from alcoholic or sexual excesses; that it is no more contagious than a broken leg; that housewives cannot contract it (as a few seem to believe) by using aluminum cookers or electric refrigerators...
...discouraging is the delayed realization by University officials that the summer term this year will be a great deal more than a picnic session for Freshmen and high school teachers. The veteran waits impatiently to learn how wide a selection of courses he will be offered and who will teach them. The married veteran, concerned more with material things, finds that, unless he can produce shelter where there is none, he must forsake either wife or education...
...battle, the dramatic highlight of the picture is reached. Showing an astonishing range and power of voice, Olivier gives that gorgeous flood of words everything they deserve. In the battle scene itself, the number of men and horses employed is large but not lavish; yet it should teach Cecil B. DeMille what spectacle can be. The charge of the French chevaliers is one of the most memorable war sequences ever filmed...
...York blue blood, he had been shy and scraggly at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., shy and scraggly at Princeton, which he left without a degree to campaign for Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. At St. Paul's, where he returned to teach history, students sometimes had difficulty hearing him. But his low-voiced earnestness had an incandescent quality they never forgot...
Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox), an American-Gothic period piece based on a best-seller by Novelist Anya Seton, won't teach anyone much about the patroon system or the anti-rent wars, but it ought to teach a lesson to every simple farm girl in Greenwich, Conn...