Word: instruction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world authority on the reproduction of fungi, Raper came to Harvard in 1954 to instruct a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses...
...movie's insistence on reducing a complex character to a single, simple-minded dimension becomes too vulgar to bear. Ironically, the people who made Conrack commit the same errors as the educational system their hero rebelled against: they too distrust and patronize the intelligence of those they would instruct...
...ideological war! And mainly for a dead ideology! This must not happen, ever! ... So give them their ideology! Let the Chinese leaders glory in it for a while. And for that matter, let them shoulder the whole sackful of unfulfillable international obligations, let them grunt and heave and instruct humanity and foot all the bills for absurd economies (a million a day just for Cuba) and let them support all the terrorists and guerrillas in the Southern Hemisphere too, if they like...
...games and lost but 141. Though the straitlaced deacon of the Christian Church looks hopelessly out of sync with today's loose and kinky players, Wooden, 63, gets them to play his brand of basic basketball year after year. The days are past when Wooden would instruct players to wear high-topped black sneakers, but he still concentrates on the proper execution of every move, from dribbling to blocking shots...
...spent four years in jail for stirring up student demonstrations, and in 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. Siqueiros' crude, bold, bright murals of historical and revolutionary scenes were sometimes caricature, sometimes fantasy, but they were always intended to instruct. His last major work (1971), in the garden of Mexico City's Hotel de Mexico, is a 48,000-sq.-ft. mural called March of Humanity and the Earth Toward Infinite Space...