Word: schoolmarm
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...champion pedants in any language, he says, turn out to be heavy users of slang. Adolescents, applying slang to test "who belongs to the group and who is an intruder," are, Farb contends, "more severe about standards for its correct usage" than the fussiest schoolmarm...
Early on in the first act, this season's femme fatale, a witch named Helza Poppins, starts casting spells on a Greek shipping magnate (Pluto Cratopoulos), a Canadian Mountie (Major Assburn) and his troops, Assburn's liberated-bopper of a charge (Mary Wanna), a hefty schoolmarm (Hortense Prune) and her maidens, One-Eyed Jack and his faithful Indian Toronto, two refugees from the frontiers of the 1840s. While they're all stomping around in Helza's "enchanted forest," Strong's unflattering imitations of Shakespearean romance require that they fall in love with each other in various un-lovely combinations until...
This is a show whose time has come -and long since gone. After a dazzling movie based on Rodgers1 and Hammerstein's 1951 Broadway musical The King and I, the idea of the irascible but lovable monarch of Siam who is tamed by the priggish but lovable English schoolmarm should be retired with honors and prizes. Instead it is being dragged out week after week as an exotic situation comedy...
...married-man situation. I can see both women's sides because I've been in both situations." Another pet project is a script that she hopes will be the first "Women's Lib western," in which the principal character is not the usual prostitute or schoolmarm, but "a recognizable human being, an independent, thinking, feeling woman...
Dewey's Heirs. A stocky, forceful divorcee who looks a bit like a traditional schoolmarm, Mrs. Weber, 54, is emerging as one of the nation's most thoughtful advocates of making informal education intellectually demanding. By now she has trained some 100 teachers who are using informal techniques with about 2,700 kindergarten-through-fourth-graders in New York City public schools; she also has a Ford Foundation grant to train ten consultants to spread her methods. She has put her studies of similar British experiments into an expert new book, The English Infant School and Informal Education...