Word: schoolmarming
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Rodka's rescuer is his faithfully unbelieving schoolmarm, Paraskovia Petrovna, who hales Father Dmitry before District Agitprop Director Kuchin and argues with him en route on behalf of edifying atheism. Director Kuchin is fed up with staging anti-God lectures ("Nobody comes but atheists"); he has his own sophisticated recipe for the conversion of Russia. "We must make it so that the last of the old ones believes no more in the omnipotent, but in us," he says. "And for this we mnst show what we can do. First, a piece of meat in the soup, good clothes...
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Memorable portrait of a wonderfully bizarre New Zealand schoolmarm with a passion for life and teaching...
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Memorable portrait of a wonderfully bizarre New Zealand schoolmarm with a passion for life and teaching...
...reasons for Charles de Gaulle's electoral triumph in Algeria last November was his giving Algerian women the vote. The woman who took most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back...
Despite his debunking Missouri skepticism, Twain let himself be thrilled, too. He went as gaga as a vacationing schoolmarm before the beauties of Versailles ("an exquisite dream"), the cathedral in Milan ("The princeliest creation that ever brain of man conceived") and the Acropolis by moonlight ("All the beauty in all the world combined could not rival it"). As if half-ashamed of such ecstatic outbursts, he lapsed into heavy-handed gags about "Mike" Angelo and the tomb of Lazarus ("I had rather live in it than in any house in the town"). Even in such jests Twain foreshadowed an emergent...