Current and prospective college students are receiving real-world instruction in the dismal political economy of public finance.
Sophist, any of certain Greek lecturers, writers, and teachers in the 5th and 4th centuries bce, most of whom traveled about the Greek-speaking world giving instruction in a wide range of subjects in return for fees.
The four non-fiction books I most valued this year have an unusual strength and depth in common; the single themes they profess to focus on are also the Trojan horses through which their writers smuggle in a whole wide world of instruction, knowledge and contemporary significance.
It is therefore tempting in this, Weill's centennial year (his 100th birthday is Thursday), to look to his musical world for instruction: how can our own less-than-scintillating cabaret scene rediscover the passion, the artfulness and the engagement of Weill's time?
In the course of the fifth century BCE the term, while retaining its original unspecific sense, came in addition to be applied specifically to a new type of intellectuals, professional educators who toured the Greek world offering instruction in a wide range of subjects, with particular emphasis on skill in public speaking and the successful conduct of life.
They further commented that "Whitney gave women of the world an instruction manual for pampering themselves in the Sex and the City era".
Due to technology and the breadth of resources available on the internet, they know that they have a world of instruction and tools available at their fingertips when these needs arise, and they are perfectly capable of meeting those needs on their own.
This time it is over the rush decision of the FAA to instruct American carriers to stop flying to Ben Gurion Airport, the biggest, almost exclusive, gate for Israel to the outside world, an instruction which was followed suit also by many other carriers.
Most of this material is medium-and high-level political reporting from around the world, plus instructions from Washington.
As their talent blossomed, the need for world-class instruction became apparent, and In Jong made plans for the girls to attend the Leadbetter Academy, where Chan had enrolled one year earlier.
Experts like YIVO's Max Weinreich and his son, Uriel, who compiled a Yiddish-English dictionary, set clear guidelines about how the language should be transliterated into English — though in that famously disputatious Jewish world those instructions were not always appreciated or obeyed.
