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...early morning instruction periods. The clinic's teaching methods (visual aids, constant repetition of sounds, the vibrations of a piano) have been copied by the children themselves. One little boy taught his sister, who has normal hearing, to make the sound "oo" by demonstrating it. Another clinic pupil, a girl, has her baby brother practicing "p" by blowing against a paper...
Then, in the humiliation of his last days at school, a simple act of kindness changes The Crock's life. A pupil (Brian Smith) astonishes him by presenting a parting gift, a copy of the Agamemnon in the Robert Browning translation. This gesture pierces The Crock's outer crust and strikes an emotional gusher. With the help of Rattigan's facile plotting, it leads to the wife's comeuppance at the hands of her lover and, finally, to a rebellious upsurge of self-respect in The Crock...
Guyda has a fair bench to draw upon. "Up and coming players," as he describes them, include halfbacks Dick Dexter and Bob Leary, and an aggressive fullback, Craig Jennings. He has a "good pupil" in James Pates, who is new to the game, and a promising halfback in Oliver Wadsworth, who has a good kick, but sometimes "fades" when about to tackle...
...allowed to peck out scales with his nose, or play a piece blindfolded, or standing on one leg. Gabriel students also play musical Truth or Consequences, in which one penalty is standing on the head to sing God Bless America. Gabriel sometimes reverses the lesson, plays student to the pupil's teacher. Says he: "It purges the kid of hostility...
Pygmalion-Shaw continued to hack away at his Galatea until Ava had what amounted to a nervous breakdown, went to a psychoanalyst. When Shaw finally decided that Ava was not a promising pupil, Ava acknowledged the breakup with the classically laconic comment: "He told me to leave, so I left...