Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turning points of Swinburne's stunted emotional life. More horrifying is the explanation (in Lesbia Brandon) of the poet's lifelong fondness for being whipped. With subtle, sensual elegance, Swinburne records the slow, tragic perversion of a boy whose admiration for his severe tutor and love for his sister can be most suitably and directly expressed by learning to bear a birching without crying...
Sanford A. Lakoff, head tutor in Government, commented that "not many students realize they have the option to drop their theses." He added that controversy over the Faculty policy may have made students reluctant to take advantage...
...Darkest America. Will such high-caliber volunteers come forward? Quiet polls at 70 campuses have shown high enthusiasm. A growing trend among collegians to tutor slum kids and help the aged is additional evidence. Next month the U.S. National Student Association will sponsor a conference to spur...
Electra. Wide-ruling Agamemnon, home from Troy triumphant, straightway is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. who usurps dominion of Mycenae. Agamemnon's son Orestes is spirited to safety by his tutor, but the dead king's daughter Electra is held in duress till she comes of age, and then is wed precautiously to a poor farmer-the sons of such a man, Aegisthus reasons, cannot hope to occupy a throne, and therefore would not dare to kill him. Vain precautions. Orestes returns secretly and at Electra's furious insistence, slaughters the usurper...
...would be absurd to describe Elliott simply as "colorful." He is so much more than a Southern gentleman; he is a deep reflection of great influences, of the acute perception of Fugitive writers and the clear-eyed morality of his tutor, A.D. Lindsay. At Harvard, he has never let his influences lie content within him, but sharpened and polished them for his friends and students. It is a lucky thing that his retirement keeps him with us, for he himself is above all a teacher, greatly influential...