Word: chalks
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...conjure up images of cigar-smoking business meetings or the Trump Towers. It certainly doesn’t make you think about the piles of cash won from your last brilliantly-litigated court case. Rather, it might conjure up images of that tenth grade English teacher who subsisted on chalk dust and notebook paper. Or perhaps a principal so frazzled that the idea of him smiling was laughable. It’s fairly realistic images like these that detract from teaching’s appeal. And while it’s certainly not a problem at all unique to Harvard...
...Dozens of silent stars failed in the talking pictures that went from novelty in 1927 to the norm by 1930. Wong had garnered raves for speaking German with a natural precision in her first talkie, Hai-Tang. Her West End stage debut in The Circle of Chalk, though, was calamitous. Critics derided her "Yankee squeak," and the show's producer, Basil Dean, blamed her for its early close. Apparently, she didn't always project for audiences to hear her, and when they did they were appalled by her flat California diction. Well, she was from California. Maybe she didn...
...Prodded by the Circle of Chalk embarrassment, Wong paid #200 for a speech teacher, who implanted a mid-Atlantic accent that the actress would use from then on. What didn't change was the flatness. She had a deep alto voice, with a cello's rich knowing, melancholy, but it was a monotone; it didn't climb or fall with the musicality most actors adopt. Her tonal range was one of the narrowest in talking pictures, and that limited her emotional range. She rarely giggled or shrieked; her voice suggested that she was either disdainful or incapable of severe highs...
...used to serving, not sitting down with the others"); and finally stammering out a scene-ending sentence ("Tell me more, En-lan - En-lan - tell me more about this revolution") while the other actors try to cover and step on her line. It was the Circle of Chalk debacle all over again...
...Bullies are increasingly resorting to technology, too, such as sending offensive text messages or recording incidents on video. Between September 2003 and February 2004, 11 students at a school in Hildesheim in northern Germany regularly beat and humiliated a classmate, forcing him to kiss their shoes, eat chalk and masturbate. They filmed some of the incidents and circulated the footage via e-mail. "It's an increase in the level of perfidy," says Klaus Hurrelmann, professor of sociology at Bielefeld University. "The victims can no longer save face through silence." As the number and seriousness of incidents increases, many parents...