Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Finger Exercise. Despite contrived moments and false notes, John Gielgud's eloquent direction and Peter Shaffer's sharp dialogue give atmosphere and tension to this play (with Roland Culver and Jessica Tandy) about an English family and the young German tutor who unwittingly feeds the fire of its discontent...
...deliberate "C-men," for whom President Lowell had always felt particular antipathy, were at last becoming a minority group. Partly by his own example of industry, Lowell had instilled in faculty and students alike a distaste for complacency and intellectual lethargy. The tutor system too had a new premium on individual effort, so that the men who had planned on doing just enough to get by were finding it rather heavy going...
Into their divided, miscomprehending midst, as tutor to a still cheery teen-age daughter, comes a quiet young German, hating the land of which his brutal Nazi father seems a symbol, and eager for a friendly English home. Discerning about the neurotic Harringtons, he-who has known real horror-tries to prevent the needless horror the family is inflicting on itself. But in sounding the alarm bell, he feeds the fire, and soon accusations and recriminations flare up everywhere...
...week's end (he is appealing to the State Tenure Commission), Worley was not sorry for his stand. "Controls by administrators," said he, "are a scab on a festering sore that hinders imaginative teaching." Twelve parents promptly hired him to tutor their children. Scholar Jacques Barzun, provost of Columbia University, wrote a warm personal note: "In a period when the rarity of good teaching is notorious and likely to increase, it is a rash administrator who would dismiss a competent and reliable teacher solely on the ground of not following to the letter a secondary obligation in the form...
...doesn't seem possible now," Owen stated, "to move in any significant number of graduates." Last spring, the Masters had hoped to re-institute the pre-war plan of providing rooms for these students, but with pressures of deconversion, increased enrollment, and the need for tutor's offices, the plan has been dropped in effect...