Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like many an autocratic schoolmarm, Miss Brodie is not in love with men, she is enamored of power. To her, Mussolini and his Fascisti offer humanity's best hope. She sends one girl packing to fight in Spain for the Falangists-where she is killed. Her favorite informant (Pamela Franklin) turns against her and squeals to the authorities. "Assassin!" shrieks Miss Brodie, and the echoing walls provide a bogus, melodramatic echo...
Rattling past this bend one June day in 1959 came the incarnate spirit of the emancipated and emancipating 20th century-a bright and determined Vassar girl in a Jeep. Neither the girl nor the town has ever been quite the same since. For between Ann Cornelisen and "Torregreca," the false name under which she has concealed the town's identity, a foreordained contest of wills took place. Chronicling this confrontation, the author might have been expected to produce another bumptious account (subtitle: The Triumph of Progress) of New World ways v. Old World meanies...
...Radcliffe student said one girl who seemed to be with Collins' group told her they were all from Columbia. The student added, "Collins kept talking about a dialogue, but it was pretty one-sided. I thought the discussion was getting pretty hostile...
...last war ends, we are shown a livingroom where four women of varying ages have lived through the surrounding hostilities. Their lives are empty except for that of the ten-year-old girl (Kate Soloman) who--in a single half hour--alludes to Homer, the Bible, Milton, James Joyce, and Lewis Carroll. The play smacks too much of a kind of self-indulgence that the author, David Richman, should avoid in the future. The bits of naturalistic dialogue that he does include are biting enough to be further developed in his next...
...attraction of people for people plays such a large part in threatre here that "girl power" is a major means of enticing people to get tech work done, especially the twenty people needed the two days before opening night...