Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty themselves so much as in the way they are used. Octavio Paz, who must surely rank as one of the handful of great living poets, was teaching a course in Spanish to a half dozen students. Fitzgerald, one of the few extant experts on epic poetry, taught one student Homer and Dante. Paul Rotterdam, one of the few significant contemporary painters who even dain teach, had eight students in his course: of which perhaps two were seriously considering careers as painters. These are just a few examples from my years at Harvard. They represent a shocking waste of resources...
...says. I move one hand out the door but it is forced back inside by the wind. I try again, grasping onto the wing strut. I force my feet out on the step, the first and last step, pivot, face forward and raise my right leg as Maclaughlin taught me. A torrent of wind pushes against me, against every muscle...
...known. The thanatology boom of the 1970s made her famous. Until recently, Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 53, traveled 250,000 miles a year as a star of the U.S. lecture circuit. Her outline of the five phases of death-from angry denial to final acceptance-is routinely taught at school and hospital seminars. Readers of the Ladies' Home Journal chose Kübler-Ross as one of eleven "women of the decade" for the 1970s. Even the movies are beginning to take account of the phenomenon: Bob Fosse's forthcoming film, All That Jazz, features...
...then given a role. Barham recruited them to engage in sexual relations by acting as "channels" for entities. Said one: "Jay told me if I practiced hard enough the entities would really come through me. He had me thinking it wasn't really me out there." Barham also taught participants that they had all lived during the time of Jesus and had been among his disciples. Says one woman, recruited as a channel: "He appealed to my ego and really hooked...
...students yesterday announced formation of a student group to save the jobs of the five professors, who taught classes off campus for a few days at the beginning of this term rather than cross picket lines of striking clerical workers. The administration then began procedures to fire or suspend the professors...