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...elected school board, dominated 4 to 1 by conservatives. A deliberate throwback to the past, John Marshall offers its 1,100 pupils a no-nonsense curriculum grounded in the three Rs. The school runs through the eighth grade, and even in kindergarten the emphasis is on reading. Principal Mike Kellner also stresses patriotism: each morning, as the flag is raised, student trumpeters sound the call to the colors through the school's loudspeaker system...
Strict discipline is enforced by the paddle-often administered by Kellner-and every day from five to 20 children may be held after school in a detention room for "character training," designed to curb unruly behavior. Neatly dressed students move about only on passes and line up single file for recess. Says Board Member Henry Myers, a chemical engineer: "This is my idea of the way basic education should be carried out. Parents are fed up with violence, vandalism, poor teaching and permissiveness. They want their kids to be disciplined and to learn the basics-how to count, spell, read...
Good Beginning. To one observer from the Vatican secretariat, the meeting was "a good beginning." Father Erich Kellner of Munich, organizer of the conference, thinks so too, and will try to convene another session next year with a wider assortment of Red thinkers. For their part, the Marxists were also willing to carry on. "What did we get out of it?" said one. "Well, we decided it is really worthwhile to have more meetings. While this might not sound like much, it is a major step forward when you remember the atmosphere of ten years...
...Rachel Kellner as Carol has most of the lines and carries the show as best she can. Her delivery and poise in performance are both natural and dramatically affecting; she makes the audience forget that there is little depth in the character she portrays. Andrew Allen and Ashley Smith are delightful as the visiting couple--he the forward sexual investigator, she the bashful tease. Ann Izzard contributes devastating barbs as Alice, and her husband, Thomas Oxnard, is the perfect foil for Morey. Edward Chase as Morey is the only weak link in the cast. He tries to make...
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