Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Going into an Oxford college, you will find that coexistence of the traditional and the modern that all but the English would find quite schizophrenic. Your college tutor may call you "Mr. Marsden," offer you a glass of sherry on arrival, even in some cases like you to wear your academic gown to tutorials--but at the same time be prepared to have you dropping in at all hours of day and night in a way. that Harvard professors, with casual attitudes to first names but rigid ones to office hours, would find quite intolerable. The same student who will...
Martha Leape, Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, said yesterday she was unaware that more than one student was sick...
...believed he was "set up." Another resident of Adams House heard the noise and called the University police, who arrived within several minutes. Both students were taken by the police to University Health Services, where they were treated for injuries and released within an hour, Peter Dale, senior tutor of Adams House, said yesterday...
...estate-owning hus band Arkadi (Robert Symonds) a total bore. She whiles away the lazy hours with a sophisticated neighbor, Rakitin (Paul Hecht), whose one-man-talk show masks the desire he feels for her. A coltishly appealing young man named Aleksei (Mark Lamos) is brought in to tutor Natalya's son. One look at him and Natalya half falls, half dives into the vortex of love...
Since this is a play in which talk is often used to hide rather than reveal emotion, Natalya's passion is well camouflaged until she discovers that a similar chemical reaction has set in between her 17-year-old ward Vera (Amanda Michael Plummer) and the tutor. As Natalya schemes against Vera like a soap opera villainess, every sort of womanly hell breaks loose. In the end, Vera, Rakitin and Aleksei depart, leaving Natalya sad der but, one suspects, not a whit wiser...