Word: headmistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of the struggle for love and sympathy amid the discipline of a German girls' school, Maedchen has all the characters one would expect. At one extreme, there is the headmistress, who is the essence of rigidity, both in attitude and in bearing (she appears to be slightly rheumatic). At the other, there are the repressed girls, led by one especially revolutionary gamin. Between them are the two figures who bear the main stress of the struggle, the sensitive orphan who needs sympathy and the teacher who must endanger her position to give the girl the love she needs. This...
...line: he discussed music not as an art but as a grave moral problem, studied musicians precisely as a social reformer studies dangerous delinquents. A bad performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni seemed every bit as wicked to Shaw as a real-life Don Juan seems to a headmistress. "I hate performers who debase great works of art," he summed up."I long for their annihilation: if my criticisms were flaming thunderbolts, no prudent Life or Fire Insurance Company would entertain a proposal from any singer within my range ..." Shaw on Music is afire with annihilating invective. He comments...
Their activities have not been confined to propaganda. Once, three teachers and a headmistress were seared by acid when they tried to resist Red infiltration. A school inspector was shot in the street, and in Penang, where a similar campaign is under way, a school headmaster was murdered. As a result of such tactics, teachers and parents alike have either knuckled under or taken refuge in apathy...
...Queen's Example. All winter and the following autumn, Mrs. Spiers sent Eva to school in slacks. Every Monday the headmistress spotted her in the hall, and sent her home for the week...
...warm has nothing to do with wearing slacks," boomed one judge. "One of the warmest garments is the kilt." Lord Goddard summed up: "Suppose some parents said they thought that in summer a child, in the interests of health, should go to school without clothes-what then? Would the headmistress be obliged to admit the child? The headmistress has the right and power to keep discipline." Spiers was ordered to send Eva back to school-in the correct uniform...