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...Daddy's 65th birthday. But the real cause of the gathering is the news that Big Daddy (Burl Ives) may be dying, and Maggie's real mission is to protect her share of the inheritance from Brick's brother Gooper (Jack Carson), a prolific dullard whose major contribution to the world is five little "neckless monsters...
Experimentation with "segregated" classes on the basis of ability is the urgent need of every school where bright children must mark time and rehear explanations they understood at once repeated a fifth time for the classroom dullard. This experimentation should be given a fair chance--unlike faint-hearted programs poorly endowed and incapably administered in one school district for one school year, and then abandoned. Experimentation, and change...
...emphasis on College Board aptitude tests has hastened the change. Since no one can prepare for them, the extra cramming that a prep school offers can no longer get the dullard through. Furthermore, the top private colleges have become increasingly less parochial in their search for students. Though swamped by applications, they still send out recruiters to schools all over the U.S. They want not only a bright student body, but a broad one; and wealth and background are less and less a factor. In 1910 only 10% of the men who applied for Harvard asked for scholarship...
Bedeviled Actress Sullavan assuredly is: for love, she has left her high-placed dullard of a husband, only to find that her cheap, shallow, pleasure-seeking lover is about to walk out on her. Hers being an intense nature and a desperate passion, she can neither face her lover's desertion nor about-face into her husband's arms. It is a situation where the circumstances are shoddy, and only the consequences tragic...
...grade school. At eight, he was giving his friends formal lectures on the anatomy of the jellyfish. At nine, he was reading Carpenter's book on microscopy. In his teens, he was sneaking physics books into his Latin classes. In school, however, he was considered a spectacular dullard. And at Harvard, almost his only claim to fame was that he once swallowed hashish and had his dreams ("I could distinctly feel myself a fox . . .") duly recorded in William James's Principles of Psychology...