Word: guiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acts Miss Brodie with tact and subtlety. But even profound craftsmanship cannot create sympathy. From the opening it is clear Miss Brodie is a petty self-deceiver and the fabric of her life is threadbare and shabby. The rest of the film is only variations on a seam. "A guid beginnin' makes a guid endin'," her class is informed. Aye; if only the revairrse did not hoold as well...
...extensive knowledge of the current selective service setup is for the time being irreplacable, Beecher has written a farewell address to Harvard's prospective, if somewhat reluctant, troops. Despite a deadly title, "The Relationship of Students and Universities to the Selective Service System," the report is an incisive guid to the mysteries of the draft...
...doesn't worry about not having a high school diploma ("I can buy one if I need one"), but he is sheepish about the way he treated teachers after the Boys signed their first contract. "I deliberately loitered in the school parking lot, waiting for my old guid...
...Scotland. In 1327, the stupid Edward was at last deposed-and somewhat later dispatched with a red-hot poker that was rammed up his rectum. In 1328, the two powers signed a treaty that recognized Scotland as an independent state and Bruce as its rightful monarch. The next year, "Guid King Robert" died of leprosy. His work was done-indeed, done better than he knew. Three centuries later, in 1603, his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson, James Stewart, was crowned King of England...
...turned, comes the sermon. It is a fine sermon, delivered by a wise old Scots preacher. on the folly of hoping to win God's grace by heaping up worldly goods or worldly good works. "Aye, Annie," the preacher mimics, "I've been aye doing so muckle guid, I've noe had time to set me down and mind...