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...time is 1935, and the place is a farm in the Catskills, presided over by a formidable middle-aged woman named Anna. She is headmistress of a progressive day school, and Mary Ann and Lolly, the girls, are her students. The other adults are Mary Ann's mother Honey, a fortyish Southern belle, and her father Bill, a stuffy but decent bureaucrat who runs a Government poverty program. They are soon joined by Lolly's parents, Celia, a pretty, distracted woman in her 20s, and Dan, an easy-riding adman in his late 40s. Dan and Honey turn...
...British Prime Minister is the first among supposed equals in the Cabinet. Cajolery is as vital a quality as conviction, and some Tories wonder whether Thatcher has the skills necessary to keep dissident ministers in line. Because of her authoritarian air, she sometimes appears to be rather like a headmistress dealing sternly with rowdy students. In discussions around the shadow cabinet table, says one associate, "she can be very sharp, steely in cutting somebody short if she has lost interest in what is being said...
...something else Weir wants to say-that in society, a sense of order is a very fragile thing. If people do not allow for the inexplicable, then they will collapse of shock when chance makes its inevitable appearance. That is what happens to Mrs. Appleyard, the school's headmistress (Rachel Roberts), and to the little academic world she has created, when the full import of the picnic strikes her. The suicide of a girl who had a crush on one of the victims is the final blow...
Firm Stand. Catholic authorities stood firm. Said Father Dominic Scholten, head of the bishops' education department: "The time has come for the church to stand up and be counted." Added Sister Bernadette, headmistress of the newly integrated St. Catherine's Convent in the Transvaal town of Florida: "There are three criteria that we apply when enrolling pupils, and race is not one of them. We accept anyone who has correct moral character, intellectual ability and can pay our fees" (about $400 a year). A newspaper survey showed that 85% of those white parents who were questioned supported desegregation...
...late youths of bucks and princes always end, and in a country once upon a time they ended just at high noon on a hot summer's Monday. Flanked by her manservant, the Headmistress scrutinized the running pack with interest; the bucks and princes finished their limbering-up, and the twenty-furlong course was over. The last young buck, completing the last sandy pace, turned round to face the Headmistress, the full weight of his years of turbulent growth marked on his questioning face. His lips moved silently, but the Headmistress well knew what inquiry he was framing. She looked...