Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first steps of most TIME foreign correspondents on a new assignment is to hire a tutor for language lessons. Even the most fluent linguists usually need a refresher course in such staples as French, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. Some other languages with which TIME correspondents have grappled: Dutch, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Korean, Afrikaans, Greek, Japanese and Chinese. There was, for example, the lady visitor who recently walked into TIME'S Rome office and heard two staff members chatting heatedly in Japanese. Said she: "This organization should be located somewhere east of Suez...
...Rome bureau's tutor is Giorgio Vanucci, who learned his English in Allied prison camps during the war. He speaks pure Tuscan, has little tolerance for Anglicized Italian or the intrusion of Roman dialect. Occasionally his uncompromising stand on pronunciation produces mutinous rumblings among his TIME students...
...years after he married her." Frank White arrived in the Paris office in 1948 equipped with a combination of college French, Foreign Legion French, and colonial French picked up in Indo-China after the war. "To Parisians," he says, "I sounded like a Saigonese houseboy." M. Dennis, his tutor, cured that. Two years later White was in Rio de Janeiro meeting another tutor at 9 o'clock every morning to master Portuguese, and in another two years he was in Bonn, where Frau Anne Marie von Dobschiitz began explaining the intricacies of German syntax...
According to plans outlined previously by Charles P. Whitlock, Allston Burr Senior Tutor for Dudley, and Phillip J. McNiff of Lamont Library, the library will be open weekdays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Commuters will be able to check out books at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays and earlier on Saturdays...
Serving on the committee with Dupuy and McKay, were George C. Homans '32, professor of Sociology; George B. Kistiakowsky, professor of Chemistry; Carrol F. Miles, Allston Burr Senior Tutor at Dunster House; and Arthur E. Sutherland, professor...