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...turned over again and tried to squeeze under what was apparently a blanket. There was something wrong with that last idea. Celebrate the imminence of the Princeton game. Of course; celebrate was the square peg. Deplore, bemoan, he thought, bewail but do not celebrate...
There was more noise made about this one than about almost any film since "Samson and Delilah." This is the one billboards and match covers have been booming as "A most unusual motion picture," a statement I won't dispute. But when the ads go on to peg it as a certain successor to "The Lost Weekend" in the Oscar department, then I must beg to differ...
...council's booklet, The Newly Appointed Teacher, tells it, Peg is a sensitive girl, half scared to death by the thought of walking into a strange school and facing her first class. There is a lunchroom across from school; Peg heads in there for a cup of coffee first. As she thinks about what lies ahead, she orders a second cup. The question Peg asks herself: "How did I ever get myself into this spot ... in a strange town, a strange school with no one in it who knows me or cares about me? I'll probably make...
...Peg's college training seems as worthless now as the advice from her mother, ."All you have to do is tell them stories and let them color pictures." The new teacher finally crosses the street and walks into the school building, but she decides that "the children are lucky. Most of them know what they're walking into. What about the new teachers? Nobody thought of us, I guess...
...help Peg and other new teachers who can't avoid feeling a little lost, the council had examined what was being done about just such problems in some 30 U.S. communities. The result: a list of tested practices that have kept many potentially first-rate teachers from being scared out of their jobs before they had a chance to prove themselves...