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Sandy Dennis plays Tyro Schoolmarm Sylvia Barrett and re-creates with considerable grace her abandonment of college-bred tenets and concepts to cope with realities in the concrete jungle. Both antagonistic forces-a bunch of surly, underprivileged kids on one side and a school administration of monolithic obtuseness on the other-abound in stereotypes: the unloved Fat Girl, the sullen boy with a streak of buried brilliance, the love-hungry spinster, the platitude-spinning principal and his vicious, misanthropic assistant...
Robert Rosenthal of the Social Relations Dept. discovered four years ago that rats performed far better when he told experimenters, falsely, that the rats had been specially bred for intelligence...
Myrtle Walgreen was a farm-bred girl whose face had never known the tint of man-made coloring. One day in the early 1900s her pharmacist husband brought home some lipstick and rouge, dabbed a little on her, then urged her to show the new face in public. In Myrtle's ruby lips, Charles R. Walgreen saw rosy profits. Sure enough, neighboring wives rushed to his drugstore on Chicago's South Side, where they found not only Walgreen-produced pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, but hot meals cooked to Myrtle's recipes. As business boomed, Charlie continued to innovate...
...trouble with Michael Winner's movie is that, for an outrage, it's awfully well-bred. The brothers are trying to give the Establishment a kick. But they certainly don't aim for a vital part. And since they nestle in the Establishment themselves (they're aristocrats and they don't reject the security it gives them) you can't help feeling the odds are not two against the country. That destroys a basic premise of comedy: a sane clown or two--like the Marx Brothers--in a crazy world...
Many in the tradition-bred Met audiences were pleased, some were piqued or puzzled, few were bored. In fact, last week when the Hamburgers also presented the first American performance of Gunther Schuller's Kafka-inspired, twelve-tone opera The Visitation (TIME, Oct. 21), a minority of listeners leaped to their feet with truly Italian fervor to boo, hiss and shout "Fraud!", while a noisy majority clapped and cheered...