Word: schoolmarm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Phoebe is a Vermont schoolmarm. Jason is a renowned Broadway playwright. He takes Phoebe on as a working partner, and the pair embark on a platonic but curiously possessive relationship...
Many Faculty members and administrators are meticulously dressed and groomed. Even some of the students are wearing coats and ties or expensive-looking dresses. An air of solemnity hangs over the room as Dean Rosovsky bangs his gavel and calls the meeting to order. Like a fastidious schoolmarm, he gives his usual speech on the necessity of punctuality...
...journalist since she was 17, Rippon joined the network as a reporter in 1973 and worked in Belfast, Rome and London. Along the way she developed the icy stare and prim demeanor of a schoolmarm, plus the flawless, classless diction of-well, a BBC announcer. "All weightiness and reliability," says a satisfied Todd of his Angela and her new colleagues. Nor is he the only one impressed with Rippon: she recently received the Radio Industries Club's Newscaster of the Year award...
...Crooner Frank Sinatra, 59, Singer Ella Fitzgerald, 57, and Bandleader Count Basie, 71, took to the stage of Manhattan's Uris Theater. Sinatra sounded fuller of voice than he has in years, Ella delivered her love songs like a woman who realizes she looks more like a schoolmarm than a possible vamp, and the Count, how roly-poly in old age, played only three numbers with his band, which was a shame. But their fans have not faded away. The opening-night audience included former New York York Mayor Robert Wagner, 65, ex-Governor Averell Harriman, 83, Lauren Bacall...
Much of the current concern about language is only a pedant's despair. Some of the preoccupation masks a cynical delight in the absurdities that people are capable of perpetrating with words No one worries very much about the schoolmarm's strictures against am t and "it's me." Connoisseurs savor genuine follies like those of the new priests of thanatology, who describe dying as terminal living," or the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare who explained a $61.7 million cut in social services as "advance downward adjustments." But whatever mirth there may be in these...