Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Brodie is a teacher of iron whim and blowtorch fervor. She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto are forever making her break out of the prim parochialism of a stuffy 1930s Scottish finishing school for girls. Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play...
...require, above all, a quality that Americans have always found difficult to cultivate: patience. Yet, as the National Committee for an Effective Congress declared last week, with no exaggeration intended, "America has experienced two great internal crises in her history: the Civil War and the economic Depression of the 1930s. The country may now be on the brink of a third trauma, a depression of the national spirit...
...dialogue and filming whatever struck their fancy. The result, often played to a soundtrack of their latest songs, was a disjointed series of daydreams, nightmares, cloudscapes, reveries and slapstick skits ending with the foursome prancing down a spiral staircase in white tie and tails in a takeoff of a 1930s Hollywood musical. "We didn't worry about the fact that we didn't know anything about making films" said Beatle Paul. "We realized years ago you don't need knowledge in this world to do anything. All you need is sense, whatever that is." Trouble...
...fascinate Jersey executives because Haider, as a 38-year veteran of a longtime conservative company, might have been expected to go by the well-thumbed company book. But in the course of his career, Haider has often dared to be different; living in an Oklahoma oil camp in the 1930s, he was the only employee who stubbornly refused to cut his lawn at company orders, and was nearly fired...
Cheese Merchant's Daughter. Christiansen business got its start in Billund during the early 1930s when his father, a carpenter unable to find work in the depressed village, began making wooden toys in his workshop. Naming his enterprise Lego, a contraction for the Danish leg godt (meaning play well), Ole Kirk Christiansen peddled his toys by bicycling about in the surrounding countryside. When Godtfred reached 14 he dropped out of the village school to join his father, after World War II helped swing Lego into the manufacture of plastic toy animals...