Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harris, however, said that "a good many senior members of the Department do teach undergraduates. I myself do more work with undergraduates than with graduate students. I even tutor sophomores," he said...
...Called for increased humility in students' attitudes, saying "I know they teach you some funny things at Harvard, but don't be tempted by the foolish idea of revolution...
...than before. Says Novelist Merle Miller, president of the Authors' Guild: "In the igth century, the novelist turned out a book a year. He could make a living at it. Now a novelist writes a book every three years because he is doing things in between." Many writers teach, e.g., Lionel Trilling, Wallace Stegner, Katherine Anne Porter. Margaret Cousins, Karl Shapiro and John Crowe Ransom edit magazines. Some write for the movies, where it is easy to forget the novel-writing urge. By one estimate, just two Americans made a living by poetry in the early 1950s-Robert Frost...
...Associate Professor Arthur A. Maass, two more from economics, Lecturer Ayers Brinser and Professor John D. Black, and a fifth from the Law School, Associate Professor Charles M. Haar, conduct the program and many of the Fellows spread out into all these areas. Of course, Littauer can hardly teach them much about the particular tasks of their own specialized jobs. But the Fellows can find training in the techniques of high-level policy planning and their courses are designed to give them a certain perspective on fields outside their...
Some of the 350 Takarazuka girls are daughters of early members. They live in the Takarazuka Operatic School for Girls, which fatherly Impresario Kobayashi runs with a strict, decorous hand (no dating, pupils to leave the school only in pairs, weekday curfew at 7). To teach them their musical trade, the girls are given a solid year of voice, ballet, Japanese Western dancing, English. After a year, they are graduated to the chorus (pay: 10,000 yen a month, or $27.77). The 30 stars make ten times that much. The girls wear blue jeans, sweaters, and horsetail hairdos in school...