Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into Harvard Law School this spring. She applied because she wants to be a lawyer--it's one of several career goals that she has, Tudor notes laughingly. Even before she was accepted to the Law School, however, Tudor believed that she wanted to take time off to teach or act. When the Harvard acceptance letter came, that was still her decision. "It's still very, very scary, but I have to do it; and I have...
...everyone was enthusiastic when Allison enlisted Dukakis to teach at the school of government. "The objectors were fearing we would become a dumping ground for failed politicians," Allison says. After a disastrous gubernatorial race and a spotty first term record, Dukakis's political fortunes seemed in decline, and members of the K-School faculty questioned the worth of bringing the former governor to the academic community...
THERE WAS ONCE a time when being a writing teacher fell under the old aphorism that "Those who can't do, teach." Nowadays, however, the grim economics of the writer's trade make it almost essential that even successful authors and poets find a steady supplement to their royalties. The majority of America's best authors make at least a portion of their livelihood from teaching writing at universities, fulfilling the literary pretensions of the young while adding a little sparkle to dry English departments...
...creative writing courses, which have been taught for the past few years by Mary Robison, a frequent contributor of short stories to The New Yorker, and Christopher Leland, a novelist. Leland's new novel, Mrs. Randall, is proof positive that the man can do, as well as teach...
Instead activists quickened the death of their cause by carrying its self-righteousness to new extremes. Unlike past years when SASC offered teach-ins to educate less-informed fellow students, the only lessons activists offered this spring were ones in doubletalk and cowardliness...