But it is hard for me to maintain my self-control, and I worry I will bend students to my authority".
One teacher, for example, reportedly bent a student over a desk and thrust his pelvis toward him, saying, "I'll show you what's gay," during a discussion on gay life in prison, The New York Times reports.
He also said that school administrators that try to limit speech deemed hateful or offensive are "bending" to student protesters.
In June, a girl was beaten by students with a shower-curtain rod; in September 2002 a student bent on escape beat a guard with a vacuum-cleaner pipe and shattered his cheekbone, said Mr. Pullan, Spring Creek Lodge's the associate director, and several staff members.
Although some parents were agonizing yesterday about the shortened schedule -- both schools, after all, are considered top-notch and have disproportionate numbers of students bent on attending top-level colleges -- the Stuyvesant students had more immediate concerns.
That's the commonsensical advice offered by Prof. Henry Stein to his hell-bent student Shelley in Jeremy Kareken's "Sweet, Sweet Motherhood," at the Here Arts Center.
The students bent their heads over their papers and wrote.
Students bent down one by one, bowed their heads and touched the floor in front of each drum.
Several students bent over and pointed at the floor, then, laughing, rose and looked around to share their amazement.
Iyengar sat at the head of a table in a windowless basement library surrounded by Western students bent over research and translation projects.
Honors programs are highly labor-intensive, entailing countless hours of coaching by expert faculty bent on getting students into the best possible universities.
