Word: schoolmistress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deaver in sentencing. "This defense has been frequently used and has almost never been successful," says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. "It's a defense of the last resort." Explains Lawyer Michael Kennedy, who cited his client's drug dependency in unsuccessfully appealing for a new murder trial for Schoolmistress Jean Harris: "Juries tend to look at addiction as something for which you must bear the responsibility. Therefore they are disinclined to let people off the hook...
...gives acting lessons to a diligent but amateur Argentine theatrical troupe. At 45, Christie can appear worn, her face sculpted in suffering, yet on her it looks beautiful. And she is still the consummate actress. In her fastidious steps and erect carriage, in the gentle edge of her schoolmistress voice, she embodies all the poise and repression of the imperial Englishwoman abroad...
...repulsed. So far as adult experience is concerned, to one who will bear a few of its stripes to the grave, it seems a thing to be avoided. Thomas North put it pithily in his introduction to (Plutarch's) Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: 'Experience is the schoolmistress of fools.' North meant that those persons, individually or in association with others . . . unwilling to study history are condemned to relive its tragedies...