Word: blackboarding
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...Blackboard Jungle, rejected at the Venice Film Festival last summer, was rated "especially valuable" by West Germany's Film Classification Board, and theaters showing it got a reduction in amusement taxes. At the same time, U.S. Army and Air Force reviewers in Nürnberg, who had formerly banned the picture, reappraised it and released it for showings in Armed Forces special circuit theaters...
Tiny Charlie Yaeger was there over the weekend, wondering if "they've been hanging me in effigy down at Dillon," and happy to learn that last week someone had actually chalked in large letters on the Field House blackboard: "Remember Charlie Yaeger." Before Saturday it was hard for some Elis to think that the Blue hadn't won since manager Yaeger scored his famous extra point in the 1952 game...
Despite all the chalk, there is no lecture at the blackboard. There are a few too many whiffs of symbolism, but Playwright Bagnold is neither mystical nor didactic. Instead, after the fashion of all true high-comedy writing, something simply becomes the more touching for having seemed brittle, the more penetrating for having seemed fagade-like. The paper chase of upper-class antics and insolences does lead to the human heart; among so many blank-cartridged witticisms there are one or two real bullets...
Backpats were traded on a Hollywood set by Academy Award-winning Cinemactress Grace (The Country Girl) Kelly and jut-jawed Cinemactor Glenn (The Blackboard Jungle) Ford, just visiting. Both have been nominated for top acting honors in the first annual Audience Awards poll, whipped up by the Council of Motion Picture Organizations to give U.S. moviegoers a chance to name their own favorites. Votes will be cast in the nation's theaters the latter half of next month...
...matter what he happened to be doing, he seemed able to doze off. He might be writing on the blackboard, and then, right in the middle of a sentence, collapse in a cloud of chalk dust for a nap. On such occasions, his pupils made the most of things. Sometimes they tied him to his chair; other times they would simply take French leave-firmly locking the headmaster in as they went...