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...Before long Johnny will again be illiterate: it is too dark to read and too cold to hold a pencil in the schoolroom...
Across America, crises over money, schoolroom violence and forced busing threaten to overwhelm the cities' public schools. In Chicago and Philadelphia, the school districts are reeling under deficits totaling tens of millions of dollars. In New York and Los Angeles assaults on teachers and students were at an alltime high. In Washington and Richmond, so many white families have fled to the suburbs that the city schools are being left, de facto, segregated...
...young toughs and lay-abouts," as he calls them -- drawn from all over England, who spent their "hols" acting and producing plays throughout England and the Continent. "I've always had a soft place for Shakespeare; I adore him. It's too bad he's so massacred in the schoolroom, rammed down people's throats in the most ghastly way. I think I love him because I grew up with him, knowing him as a kid; he gives such credit to his audiences' imagination. I got high on it." Franco Zeffirelli obviously not only spotted York's acting ability...
...film opens in the dappled light and lingering summer afternoons of their unresolved courtship, and ends in a wartime winter several years later, inside a barren schoolroom crowded with Jews awaiting confinement. In between, De Sica observes the gathering momentum of catastrophe in small, subtle moments: anonymous phone calls during a Passover celebration, a tiny Nazi flag in a newsboy's bike basket...
...inner citadel of the French classical tradition, the 17th century jewel box of Richelieu's theater at the Comédie-Française itself, where Molière played the lead before Louis XIV in 1668. Georges Dandin is an early farce, today often left to the schoolroom, about a rich peasant who has married above himself, is cuckolded by his wife and humiliated by her pretentious petty-noble parents. In the bones of every 17th century comedy of manners, sophisticated or crude, there aches a bitter social criticism. Director Jean-Paul Roussillon has made farce into...