Teachers also reported "unprecedented levels" of school-related anxiety, stress and mental-health problems amongst both primary and secondary pupils, leading the NUT to call on the Government to abandon its plans to increase assessment of schools.
The switchboard girl had reported that Room 652 had gone nuts and was trying to call up Governor Lehman.
Rickman plays a British military officer acting as the interface between politicians and the army, while Helen Mirren (who handed him his Bafta all those years ago) is the tough-nut colonel who wants to call in the missiles.
Suppose, for example, some nut-case politician were to call for the internment of all Muslim Americans?
"They call me eccentric; they used to call me nuts.
When I told him it was true, his only reaction was, "Really?" Colin, too good a friend and far too polite to call me nuts, only smiled.
Incidental Intelligence: On the N.B.C. network, it is forbidden to call any character a nut; you have to call him a screwball.
The New Yorker, December 23 , 1950 P. 15Incidental Intelligence: On the N.B.C. network, it is forbidden to call any character a nut; you have to call him a screwball.
By John McNulty and E. B. White The New Yorker, December 23 , 1950 P. 15Incidental Intelligence: On the N.B.C. network, it is forbidden to call any character a nut; you have to call him a screwball.
I used to call him a football nut because he took everything on board.
