Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...temporary teachers form one of the brainiest public school staffs in the country. Eager, dedicated and inventive, with a heavy emphasis on the Ivy League-"I'm a bum," quips one principal, "but all my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits"-they come early and stay late, refusing to bow to the stale pedagogic commands that emanate from 110 Livingston Street, the Board of Education's central office in Brooklyn. Many have attended law school, and regular teachers complain bitterly that they are in Ocean Hill only to escape the draft...
...Ministers may not have the chance to resign. Informed in London of the Cabinet's truckling, a furious Hussein privately spoke of dismissing Talhouni and the Cabinet. It is obvious that Hussein will somehow either have to cow the fedayeen or bow entirely to their will, forgoing any chance of peace with Israel. Last week the largest fedayeen organization, El Fatah, for the first time called a press conference. Its spokesman declared its total rejection of any political settlement in the Middle East. As Hussein returns to his capital this week, the King must be only too well aware...
...irritating, but rarely more than that, and sometimes they're downright effective. Newman's use of camera is, in contrast to the fancy editing, routinely tasteful. The result is an intelligent and mildly absorbing movie of a sort not often seen nowadays. If not glistening with promise, Newman's bow as director nevertheless lacks the arrogance characteristic of a Mike Nichols or a Francis Ford Coppola, both more conventional Hollywood prodigies...
...right of our writers to state publicly their opinions about the moral life of men and society, to elucidate in their own way the social problems or the historical experiences that have so profoundly affected our country. Many delegates to this congress know how they themselves have had to bow to the pressure of the censorship, to capitulate. They have rewritten chapters, pages, paragraphs, phrases; they have sweetened them only because they wanted to have them published; in so doing, they have damaged them irreparably. What is best in our literature is mutilated before it appears...
...center of it all is an aimiable British comedian, Frankie Howerd, who plays a character named John Emery Rockefeller--conveniently giving the authors the opportunity to include a raft of Rockefeller jokes. (The play's being retitled Rockefeller and the Indians for its Broadway bow.) Mr. Howerd could probably be quite funny, if he were not hampered by such handicaps as the script and direction. Perhaps if Mr. Shevelove let his star run wild and ignore the play, Sassafras would draw more laughs than its present quota...