Word: macdonaldization
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...Besides MacDonald, catchers Bing Crosby and Bill Hickey will be on the trip. Crosby caught last spring for the freshmen...
...credit of the cast, the actors try every bit as hard as their script writers. Kitty Carlisle, fresh from innumerable operettas, can get laughs without musical accompaniment, while MacDonald Carey, as her husband, is properly harassed. Lesser roles are handled by Phyllis Povab, a neurotic and amusing mother-in-law, and blustery Howard Smith. These leads produce a smooth performance from an almost unrelated series of family squabbles...
...most painful aspect" of teaching in the U.S., said Teacher MacDonald, is "the fight put up by the children against being educated." She blamed their boisterousness on the American desire to win ("If you make it almost impossible for [the teacher] to teach, you win"), and on "the educational theory, very strong in America, that no child should be thwarted or suppressed in any way." Miss MacDonald, by her own account, believes in "spankable little bottoms." Denied that privilege, she found the "young fiends" of eleven difficult to control...
...tell you what life was like with the sixth grade," Miss MacDonald told her British audience. "They come charging in, all 14 of them, bursting with pep and dog and devil . . . Milly throws on my desk two battered and scrawled anonymous sheets. 'Where's your name, Milly? You should write your name on your [home] work before giving it in.' She borrows a pencil from Alice, her companion in crime. Alice has a clip machine; she clips the pages together ... so that I cannot open them. I get possession of this mangled piece of work, have...
Occasionally, Teacher MacDonald allows, her American sixth-graders were "sensitive and brilliant." Somehow, the troublemakers "picked it all up ... in a way that many of our more studious classes might envy." One day she read them Matthew Arnold's The Forsaken Merman, and "there was dead silence, everyone as deeply attentive as a devout congregation in church." It was one day when victory went to teacher...