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...famous flower arranger known professionally as Wafu (Gentle Breeze), young Teshigahara was arranging flowers at four, at 14 often replaced his father in classes, as a teen-ager plowed through the Chinese classics. But at 26, Teshigahara, who had chosen as his ikebana name Sofu (Cool Green Breeze), decided to strike out on his own. What Sofu did was as shocking to the classicists as pounding out madrigals to a boogie-woogie beat. The central canon of ikebana for centuries has been Ten-Chi-Jin (Heaven-Earth-Man), where heaven is symbolized by the tall central flower...
When the short, cocky Puerto Rican teen-ager first wandered into the gym of Manhattan's Joan of Arc Junior High School on West 93rd Street, no one bothered to ask him why he had come. The evening boxing class-an effort to keep potential delinquents off the streets-was in full swing. Physical Education Teacher James O'Tarrell. 28, simply assumed that the boy was just another pupil. Then the time came for the class to roll up the mats and leave. Instead of helping with the work, the boy stood on the sidelines and jeered...
When Instructor O'Tarrell asked him to lend a hand, the boy flatly refused. Finally, O'Tarrell told him to clear out, but the boy retorted: "You put me out." "I'll escort you out,'' said O'Tarrell, and took the teen-ager by the arm. At that point, the boy pulled a switchblade knife out of his pocket, shook himself free, and plunged the blade twice into O'Tarrell's back. As five other stunned school employees and more than a hundred pupils stared in silence, he fled into the street...
...Soviet air force. But Stern Disciplinarian Lysikov Sr. disapproved of his son's ambition, as he disapproved of almost everything else about the boy. He might have disapproved even more had he known that Valery's real wish was to become an American pilot. As a teen-ager in Stalingrad, and later in the East zone of Berlin, Valery was as devoutly pro-American as his non-proletarian father was proCommunist. He seized every opportunity to tune in secretly to broadcasts of the Voice of America and the BBC, pored over contraband U.S.-history books, and whirled...
Perhaps the most surprising thing about them is that most of them read very much like the works of a 13-year-old-precocious, well-behaved and well-read beyond his years but a teen-ager nonetheless. Dedicated Carrollians will find few clues of the greatness to come. The Headstrong Man who . . . stood on high Upon a lofty wall; And every one who passed him by, Called out "I fear you'll fall...