Word: pygmalion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notice not only that black schools are more poorly funded, but that many teachers--influenced by theories like these--go into their jobs with the attitude that black children can't learn, and so make no serious attempt to teach them. A study by Lenore Jacobson and Robert Rosenthal (Pygmalion in the Classroom) showed that, when teachers were convinced that certain pupils were likely to begin doing better, those pupils' performance improved markedly...
...exists. The playwright is ambiguous. She craves the company of a virile male. Eugene, an Irish bill collector, fills the bill, and she collects him in an obliquely Pinteresque seduction scene. She clothes and feeds him and teaches him manners rather after the fashion of a reverse Pygmalion. Above all, she teaches him that, in England, veneer is worth far more than character if one is to be a proper social arriviste...
...Fair Lady. 1964. Nothing near the original film version of "Pygmalion," but delightful in itself for the rousing music and for Audrey Hepburn. Film took 8 Oscars including Best Picture. CH. 4. 8 p.m. Color...
After the wedding she begins to realize that her Pygmalion is rather stuffy, and he sees that his Galatea is resisting the finer things he is trying to offer her. One night he comes home from a hard day juggling tax forms to discover her curled up with Madame Bovary. "I feel so sorry for her because she's trapped," she announces. Not long thereafter, he hires a private investigator (Topol) to check on her constancy...
...Amateur. In the U.S., Polaroid has upgraded many employees by setting up a unique apprentice system, in which blue-collar workers are assigned to become aides to experienced researchers. "In about two years we find that these people have become almost a Pygmalion problem," says Land. "They have become creative." Indeed, Land believes that almost anything can be accomplished, including the remaking of people. In his drive for breakthroughs, scientific and social, he is always experimenting. While visiting London two years ago, he startled his driver by exclaiming: "Did you know that I am an addict? I am addicted...