Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professors, who will take office on July 1, are John F. Kain in Economics, Lee Rainwater in Sociology, Nathan Glazer in Education and Social Structure, and Frederick E. Smith in Advanced Environmental Studies in Resources and Ecology. Smith's appointment is in the School of Design, Glazer's in the Graduate School of Education, and Kain's and Rainwater's are jointly in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Kennedy School of Government...
Rainwater will be coming to Harvard from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., where his studies have centered on urban social problems and race relations. Smith, currently at the University of Michigan, specializes in the study of population growth and the application of systems analysis to problems of the environment...
...last night's masked horrors looked and behaved like a bunch of kids out for trick-and-treat. Patricia Smith's slattern recalled a hoarse and unhappy spinster. And like the other actors, Bacchus (Michael Cline) relied on pronouncing lines in a pseudo-theatrical voice...
Such is the pedagogy in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. A burring, feline spinster, Miss Brodie (Maggie Smith) lives off the baby fat of the land-Edinburgh, 1932. In a provincial girls' public school, she inscribes her prejudices on scores of blank pupils. Her taste becomes their only touchstone, her politics their only truth. "I am in the business," she loftily announces, "of putting old heads on young bodies...
Amid rigged climaxes and sobbing violins, Smith acts Miss Brodie with tact and subtlety. But even profound craftsmanship cannot create sympathy. From the opening it is clear Miss Brodie is a petty self-deceiver and the fabric of her life is threadbare and shabby. The rest of the film is only variations on a seam. "A guid beginnin' makes a guid endin'," her class is informed. Aye; if only the revairrse did not hoold as well...