Word: schoolmistress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dark Encounters. This book's title, The Time of Friendship, is of course ironic, masking profound misanthropy. Every tale he tells leads to a dark encounter, the collapse of friendship, the failure of understanding. In the title story, a Swiss schoolmistress in Algeria befriends a Moslem youth and tries her civilizing Christianity on him; he destroys her Christmas creche and tricks her into helping him join the F.L.N. In The Hours After Noon, a genteel French lecher, visiting an archaeological camp, gestures toward a Moroccan girl and ends up behind a boulder with a wire around his neck...
...establish mood by plunging nearly every London setting into an all but impenetrable gloom. He recklessly tips off the viewer that a key character is deranged thus siphoning off surprise from a climactic mad scene for which no Oscars will be won. Meanwhile, Martita Hunt as a dotty old schoolmistress, and Noel Coward, as a dotty old literary type strive to stop the show with their patented idiosyncrasies. To keep an eye on everyone, there is the man from Scotland Yard-dryly played by Sir Laurence Mivier, who seems bemused to find his king-sized talent tucked into so mundane...
Comrade Leonard Makepeace is a provincial bicycle mechanic with a passion for the Marxian notion that man (and society) is perfectible on earth. This passion he dissipates happily in tavern talk until he meets a delectable but distant schoolmistress from Lenin grad. Rejected in love, he goes after power and one day discovers in a volume of Indian theosophy the technique of "mental magnetism." He realizes he can make anybody do anything...
...worshiped his first wife Marie-Henrie blindly, and when she died he blundered into marriage with Olivia Slocum, a blueblooded schoolmistress whose father he had ruined. He spent the rest of his life taunting Olivia with memories of Marie-Henrie. Olivia liked dogs; Sage acquired cats (which Marie-Henrie loved and he detested). Olivia wanted Sage to decorate their house with works of art; Sage hung photographs of locomotives and maps of his railroad holdings. Olivia liked Oriental rugs and bric-a-brac; Sage littered the parlor with buffalo robes. But Olivia got even. When Sage died in 1906, leaving...
PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Janice Rule plays Prudence Crandall, a Connecticut schoolmistress who integrates her private school. The year...