Word: headmistress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blighter, is showing his age--scene two pops up, with Reginald Jeeves as official narrator. This scene involves a vacation and a speech to a girls' school full of schoolgirls, and it collects its share of laughs. The picture of the impeccable Jeeves devolving into Wooster or a starched headmistress is, in itself, enough to supply a right humorous air to the scene. The second act is more of this good stuff: a friendly poke at beastly aunts, a discourse on the proper waistcoat, and a drunken tirade shouted by a lovesick newt-fancier at a public school awards ceremony...
HOSPITALIZED. Jean Harris, 61, former school headmistress now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence for killing Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower; after suffering a heart attack at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where she has been incarcerated since 1981; in Valhalla...
...dispirited Labor strategists, the theme of "Headmistress" Thatcher bullying her colleagues was a heaven-sent chance to go briefly on the offensive. Within hours, Labor was making the Prime Minister herself a campaign issue, repackaging the toughness that made her the "resolute" leader in the Falklands war into domineering bossiness. The Tory Cabinet, Healey argued, consists of "neutered zombies," and Thatcher would be "intolerable" if she won big. The S.D.P.'s Jenkins put it more starkly. Five more years of Thatcher "still cocooned in her own self-righteousness," he warned, would divide the country. "The revulsion would be such...
...months before the Westchester County court decides whether a new trial is warranted. Meanwhile, life in prison continues for Harris, who celebrated her 60th birthday over the weekend. Now living in a special house with private rooms at New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the former headmistress of Virginia's fashionable Madeira School for girls spends her mornings making quilts or writing, her afternoons working with expectant mothers. Even the prospect of eventual freedom holds no great joy. "I'm like a Pilgrim woman captured by Indians," says Harris, "who, when she is returned, belongs...
...that partisanship does not prevent her from leading the reader through every squalid stage of Harris' 14-year affair with Tarnower. The Scarsdale physician, the son of humble Jewish immigrants, was a relentless social climber, impressed by the gracious airs and cultivated ways of the classy, Waspish headmistress. Soon, however, he reneged on his proposal to marry her and embarked on a series of affairs. All the while, he kept Harris on the leash she handed...