Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marilyn is majoring in physical education, gets one semester-hour credit for her tennis, plans to become a physical education instructor. She frets about the kidding administered to males who lose to her. "It makes me feel bad," she says. "I don't think it's fair for them to tease...
...British Guiana-born Negro, and the London engineering firms to which he applied told him politely that there must have been some mistake: no jobs were available. Then Braithwaite heard that London's schools were desperately short of teachers. The young physicist got his job-as an instructor in Greenslade secondary school, a state-financed establishment for troublemaking slum children from London's East...
Newark-born Philip Roth, 26, onetime English instructor at the University of Chicago, is a Jew himself and writes of Jews with an absorbing ambivalence of hate and love. Author Roth's broadly farcical stories, The Conversion of the Jews and Epstein, are too heavyhanded; but his tender passages between young Jews in love are often a delight, and his set pieces-weddings, multiple-course dinners, the frequent inability of Jews and gentiles to understand each other though using the same language-have style and the outrageousness of life itself...
Sometimes this pitch seemed a little extreme, as when the class spent some time to decide on the meaning of catharsis, and when, in the third class on the Odyssey, some of the girls were still referring to Telemachus. But the instructor hesitated to correct, and said he felt that this might make students self-conscious...
...girls were certainly not self-conscious; they, not the instructor, dominated the discussion. And, in fact, when the latter was explaining a point in some detail, one student interrupted him to ask, "Should we be copying this down...