Word: dunne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early September 1949, few people in New York City could have looked forward to the future more eagerly than 21-year-old Joan Dunn. A graduate of The Bronx's College of Mount St. Vincent, she was beginning her career as a teacher of English, and as she walked toward the Brooklyn high school to which she had been assigned, she felt an "excitement in the air, that particular sharp-pencil, clean-copybook, brand-new-eraser crackle in the ether that made me walk a little faster...
Four years later, Joan Dunn quit teaching forever. Last week she told why, in a new book called Retreat from Learning (McKay; $3)-a disturbing glimpse of big-city high-school life at its worst, and an outraged indictment of modern educational theories from one who has seen them in action...
...Author Dunn's complaint is not that she had to work too hard (often ten hours a day) or that she was paid too little (take-home pay of $40 a week). She admired most of her colleagues and was deeply attached to many of her students. But somehow, from the first roll call each morning and the distribution of the various questionnaires that floated down from the upper bureaucracy ("Are there any defective electrical sockets in your home? Check Yes or No"), her day became a fight against exhaustion...
Barring Veteran Comic David Burns the cast is young, night-spotty, and largely new to Broadway, Pat Carroll, Jack Wakefield, Helen Halpin and Elaine Dunn should all have Broadway futures, but at the moment they can only enhance good material; they cannot save bad. What with undistinguished numbers and indistinguishable songs, a long-winded ballad about a killer and a dreadful adaptation of O Henry's Gift of the Magi, Catch a Mar! only intermittently catches...
...July 11 issue we read of an uneducated waif, Harold M. Dunn, who in 33 months under duress collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received a sentence of eight years at hard labor. In the same section a highly educated college graduate, Winston Burdett, who without duress-seemingly for the whim of it-collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received praise from his boss and the Senate committee. I wonder if it was with premeditation or happenstance that TIME placed these sad tales side by side to illustrate this inequality of our scales of justice...