Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Winter Harvest. The first months were even busier than Dr. Reeves had expected. Before a year had passed, he called in Dr. McShane, just graduated from his own old school, and made him a partner...
...time she got to grammar school, she was a great hulk of a girl whose private preoccupations and unusual size set her apart from the other children. Her mother had always planned on having a dainty little blonde for a daughter. She compromised by spoiling her only child and calling her "Goozie." Her father was an ex-reporter who came back from World War I to work in the Christian Science Church. It was a principle of George Channing's religion to help every individual to realize his own individuality, but in the case of his daughter, that...
...grammar school she kept her fellow pupils in stitches by imitating the teachers. At Aptos Junior High she got herself elected student-body secretary, and caused an uproar among her colleagues by delivering the minutes of each meeting in the precise accents and gestures of the earlier speakers. Her size and her perpetual playacting led most of Carol's schoolmates to think of her as a big, good-natured clown, and Carol played up to the part. But at home, hoping to please Mrs. Channing, Carol did her best to act a dainty, cuddly blonde. Years later, when...
...Perlea acquired some of his operatic versatility clandestinely. Son of an "incredibly rich" land-owning Rumanian father and a German mother, in school he used to study scores instead of his Latin, hiding them on his lap in the classroom. He studied piano, cello and violin ("The piano is the instrument I play least badly"), later studied composition at the Munich Conservatory. By the time he was 21 he was conducting at the Leipzig Opera House; at 29 he was general manager of the Bucharest Opera. In 1944, the Nazis interned both Jonel and his writer wife for refusing...
...wisdom and judgment." Stalin, he reported, had listened to many works entered in competition for a hymn of the Soviet Union, and "with surprising exactitude" put his finger on precisely what was wrong with each of them. "For composers," said Shostakovich, ". . . these meetings with the leader were a real school which left lifetime traces in their consciousness...