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Founding the first modern Montessori school in the U.S. turned red-haired Nancy McCormick Rambusch from a housewife into a stormy prophetess. Her success in setting up the Whitby School in Greenwich, Conn., led to so much demand for her advice that she went on to start the American Montessori Society. "I'm sort of the Mary Baker Eddy of this organization," she remarks, a little ruefully. But Nancy Rambusch is proud that beginning with Whitby in 1958, the Montessori movement in the U.S. has grown to 100 private schools (38 of them belonging to her A.M.S...
...project. They are mostly fatherless Negroes and Puerto Ricans whose mothers work or are on relief. "Some of the older ones had hands that didn't even operate like hands," says the school's director, Marcella Morrison, who taught in Chicago public schools before she went to Greenwich for a year of Montessori training at Nancy Rambusch's Whitby School. "They had never been given anything to handle." At first they were a reserved, hostile bunch, and Director Morrison found that she could barely even talk with them. Now the Cabrini kids fondly call her "the tall...
...EARLY GRAVE, by Wallace Markfield. A funny, unpretentious novel about a small clutch of men who make their living in Greenwich Village by being "intellectual." Author Markfield has clearly read his Joyce very closely, but his style is lighter and his wit strictly...
...perceptions of bearded anarchists. But for half of its 80-minute length, practically anyone can enjoy it. Anyone, at least, who is reasonably irresponsible, mad about old movies, and perhaps a wee bit crazy in the first place. Written and directed by Theodore J. Flicker, onetime entrepreneur of a Greenwich Village coffee-and-show house known as The Premise, the movie tells of young Jack Armstrong (Tom Aldredge) who arrives in An Unidentified City-the one substantial clue to its whereabouts is a Statue of Liberty in the harbor-and tries to open a coffeehouse. He finds a promising firetrap...
This hilarious first novel can be enjoyed by the general reader for its grotesque comedy, savored by the insider for its satire on the folkways of Greenwich Village intellectuals. "I raised you from a Middlebrow. I weaned you away from the art films, showed you the difference between the Western as mass myth and mass rite," one character tells another. It can also be read as a seriocomic exploration of the hollowness concealed beneath the vintage sophistication that has long been identified as Greenwich Village at its most intellectually pretentious...