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...fared no better, says Psychologist Charles. There was Washington Irving's gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, "with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that [his head] looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck . . ." Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hard Words | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The dull spots in this doubleheader are enlivened by some fresh Walt Disney creations; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the sound track (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The dull spots in this doubleheader are enlivened by some fresh Walt Disney creations; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the sound track (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jan. 9, 1950 | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The dull spots in this double-header are enlivened by some fresh Walt Disney creations; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Some fresh Walt Disney creations; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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