Word: schoolrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. schoolroom has a framed copy of the Constitution on the wall. This week New York City's 850,000 children, returning to classes, found something else there-a copy of the San Francisco Charter. For those old enough to understand it, the Charter will also be a text for study. For those too young, School Superintendent John E. Wade hopes the framed Charter will become, like the Constitution, something to look...
Columbia's Allan Nevins thinks that News of the Nation ". . . promises to bring a fresh breath into the schoolroom." Charles A. Beard finds it "hard to imagine a more effective way of attracting general readers to American history." Newsmen could applaud a professional job of writing, editing, presentation...
...Griffith. His comedies, always improvised on the spot, gave a vast, fresh native energy to the ancient traditions of clowning. They also made the law laughable and legs lucrative, were a training course for half the biggest stars of the '20s, and the source and schoolroom for the comedies of Rene Clair, the brilliant experiments of Preston Sturges...
Foreshadowing the fruition of that talent is the earliest of the 23 drawings with which Author Lehmann-Haupt records the growth of Dore's style. It is the childhood vision of his Strasbourg schoolroom. Its squirming, unposed action bespeaks an eye that never let go of much (an asset unmistakable in a later-year impression of a London crowd, which echoed the same theme of hellishly snarled humanity). In the early schoolroom satire there is also more than a suggestion of how little the artist was ever able to let go of his mother. When she died...
...your hide is enfettered to a schoolroom stool...