Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the priest connives with the girl to get her letters to him, Brigitte discovers it and brings a complaint against the priest. Sickened by loneliness and by the discovery that his adored mother is an adulteress (a masterly story in itself), the boy steals money from his tutor and runs away. It looks like a triumph for Brigitte's self-righteousness. But the priest, though apparently defeated, finally wins her half-mad and remorseful soul...
...Tutor & Technique. The late Arthur L. Clarke, first managing editor of the Daily News, wanted his son to be a diplomat. When Dick Clarke finished Hackley School, his father packed him off to Europe for a year, told his tutor to see that he did not read or speak a word of English. Clarke studied at Munich and Grenoble, spent three years at Harvard, got a "war degree" after World...
...members of the U.S. Education Mission were ushered into a room in the palace where there were no chairs. Everybody stood around awkwardly while Hirohito asked elaborate questions about the weather. Then the Emperor came to the point: Could the Mission recommend an American tutor for the Crown-Prince? Says Chairman George D. Stoddard (now president of the University of Illinois): "I gulped a few times on that one. Then I said, yes indeed, we could all think of someone...
...little later, over tea and cakes, it was the Japs who were surprised when Stoddard thought to ask Hirohito's master of ceremonies Hidenari Terasaki whether the Emperor wanted a man or woman tutor. (Jap princes are traditionally removed from feminine influence, even their own mother's, at an early age.) Says Stoddard: "Terasaki thumped his teacup down on the mahogany table, really baffled. When he returned after consulting Hirohito, he said the Emperor wanted a woman...
Last week Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence") learned the name of his new tutor: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining of Philadelphia, Pa. Twelve-year-old* Akihito will meet Mrs. Vining some time this fall when she flies to Japan for her first visit and a year's stay. She will be given a small salary, a house, a car and servants...