Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School, McCormack...
...remains a challenging figure. Now two new books tap the mind behind the fingers. In Conversations with Glenn Gould (Little, Brown, $15.95), based largely on a 1974 two-part interview in Rolling Stone, Jonathan Cott elicits from the reclusive Canadian his views on teaching ("Given half an hour of your time and your spirit and a quiet room, I could teach any of you how to play the piano"), composers ("I really don't like Mozart") and pop music ("At her best, Barbra Streisand is probably the greatest singing actress since Maria Callas"). Often technical, and sometimes sycophantic, the book...
...Dissatisfied with their education in Scottsdale, she decided to start a summer school of her own. "It has been written for centuries that thinking is important," she says, "but that is a lot different from saying, 'I have a method of showing how to do that.' " She wanted to teach children how to think creatively and critically, to use both the analytical left side of the brain and the more intuitive right side, to improve both verbal and nonverbal communication. In five years, her school swelled from 40 students to 200, at $60 per week each...
...shock: he is both the incarnation and a parody of her lost love. He speaks in the tones of a computerized Muppet and moves in twitches, like a punk robot. But he is innocent and kind, and as alone in the universe as she feels. She can befriend him, teach him, mother him and finally love him-whoever he is, whomever she wants him to be. She can travel with him, as the movie does, under cruise control toward romantic transcendence...
...sacramental wino but still relentlessly endearing, dodging attacks and responsibilities with an easy quip. Somewhere beneath the show-biz charm, though, compassion pulses. When an angry young seminarian (Zeljko Ivanek) antagonizes his rector (Charles Burning), Father Farley resolves to detoxify the lad's ardor, teach him a few punch lines, figure out where God fits into all this...