Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...details of a rough and cruel period of history, The World Is Not Enough is impressive. Miss Oldenbourg seems to know a lot about the Middle Ages. As a novel, the book wobbles from sheer weight of overpopulated subplots. The author meanders along on the theory that an unselective detailing of life histories is a satisfactory substitute for dramatic construction...
Lucy Madeira Wing, who was 75 last week, is a reformed tomboy. For 52 years, as a kind of "retribution" for an early and intense dislike of anybody in skirts, she has been teaching girls. "Miss Madeira," founder and headmistress of Virginia's exclusive, expensive and excellent Madeira School, went to public school herself. She would like to see the day when private schools like .Madeira close down...
...Madeira School was founded for a grubbier motive than most educators like to admit: Lucy wanted to make more money. A Vassar graduate ('96), Miss Madeira began teaching English and history in a Washington, D.C. private school. After ten years of it, she was earning $950 a year. Borrowing $6,000, she started her school in 1906 in a rented building in downtown Washington. One month before the term began, a parent telegraphed to ask if there were any openings. Replied Miss Madeira: "All of them...
Simply Dreadful. Miss Madeira, one of Washington's last New Dealers, thinks it "simply dreadful" that most of her students must come from "economic royalist" families.* Returning from vacation, the daughter of a West Virginia mine operator once told the headmistress: "My father likes everything about your school except your ideas...
...Miss Madeira has a simple definition of education: "Discipline of the mind." The headmistress disciplines Madeira minds on liberal arts, the Bible and public affairs (she teaches the last two subjects herself). Exams are tough, but no marks are ever posted. Miss Madeira believes, with Robert Louis Stevenson, that "the world must return ... to the word duty and be done with the word reward." She also drums into the girls two mottoes of her own: "Function in disaster" and "Finish in style...