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...students choose to move off campus are as varied as the students themselves. Some crave privacy. Some "want to be their own bosses," as Marquand points out. Some want to take meals with people by choice rather than by chance. Some are just plain tired of leading the boarder's life. And some want to be a part of the "real world" rather than live in a virtual ghetto of students...
...were too cool to identify the cultural forces Miller unveiled. Zindel's tottering steps toward social analysis stop at a symbolism laid on so thick that it is embarassing. Take, for instance, Mathilde's fascination with radioactive half-life, the dominant metaphor for Beatrice's disintegration; or Beatrice's boarder, a vegetable corpse of a woman, with palsied hands, lips curled in like a death grip, and big blind eyes that lear a reminder of isolation. These are the tools of Williams's memory mood plays, a manipulative sentimentalism masquerading as moral realism...
...evening in 1900, the wife of one of the area's white settlers answers a knock at her farmhouse door. Out of the darkness rushes the hired man, an aboriginal, flailing about with an ax. Moments later the farmer's wife, her two daughters and a schoolmistress-boarder lie hacked to death...
...unremitting emphasis on the need to resist dogma and to create change thoughtfully, if slowly in practice as well as in theory, and a refreshing understanding of where reforms probably begin and end, of how far schools may improve with straightforward changes in practice and to what degree boarder issues of race, inequality, income distribution, and public finance will have to be faced before more fundamental change is realized. Schools Where Children Learn centers on what Featherstone, in an interview, called the "micro-issues" of reform, changes on the level of the school and classroom, although both his commentaries...
...caring for her "atomic flowers." (Miss Kurtz, however, has a tendency to play too many of her emotional cards too early; a little more passivity in the first act would pay larger dividends in the second.) There is also Ethel Woodruff in the potentially unrewarding part of the decrepit boarder. Miss Woodruff looks not unlike a pet rabbit who is murdered during the course of the drama; her pink eyes stare painfully ahead as if death were some shabby stranger waving in the faint distance, and I found her portrayal so credible that I often found it necessary to avert...