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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Brodie is a teacher of iron whim and blowtorch fervor. She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto are forever making her break out of the prim parochialism of a stuffy 1930s Scottish finishing school for girls. Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...clumsy Broadway adaptation by Mrs. Jay Allen of a Muriel Spark novel, the drama focuses on the havoc created by an invincibly dedicated teacher who stimulates the imaginations of adolescent girls with her own feverish fantasies of love and life. "I put old heads on young shoulders," Miss

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...pretty young biology teacher from the French lycee (where I'm studying Vietnamese) took two of us to a Buddhist novitiates' encampment in a pine grove to meet some young monks at work on a new pagoda. The head man invited us in to his 'prayer house' for what turned into a proselytizing session. He gave me an autographed copy of an anthology of Buddhist wisdom which he had edited. I promised to read it once I knew enough Vietnamese...

Author: By Lawrence A. Walsh, | Title: Vietnam: An Outside Perspective | 1/24/1968 | See Source »

...another stage, Joyce reaches a pitch of unconscious absurdity when, like many another teacher of English, he wonders whether he is getting through to the dim minds hypnotized before him: "My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire." After this, it is hardly gallant for him to accuse the quagmire thus: "Her body has no smell: an odourless flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinking Stones | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...course the central fact of being a student is going to school. But so far, the government has not been able to reach advanced students there to give them any great feeling of nationality. A desparate teacher shortage has kept French instructors in control of nearly all the secondary schools, and much of the say over what is going to be taught still comes from Paris. The lycees teach more Cartesian logic than Ivoirian problems, dispensing much that means little to life so far from France...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: The Ivory Coast: Old and New Exist in Awkward Mixture | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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