blackboard jungle
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In the air-conditioned calm of office cubicles, grey-flanneled young Ph.D.s sit sipping coffee and chalking abstruse formulas on a blackboard jungle of schoolmasters' slates.
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Clearly, discussions of Clark's approach to taming the blackboard jungle run high with emotion.
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A British expedition into the blackboard jungle, with Sidney Poitier investing a fine and subtle warmth into the role of a starchy teacher in a slum school.
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Only four years ago, Washington High would have matched most people's Hollywood image of the blackboard jungle.
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The setting for this crime wave is not an inner-city blackboard jungle but suburban Evanston Township High School on Chicago's elm-shaded, affluent North Shore.
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