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...they did. Six of them looked further, back into Mr. Keating's years at Helton, and discovered the Dead Poet's Society, a group of boys who went late at night to the old Indian cave in the woods and read poetry aloud to each other...
...results were immediate. Commentators called for Rose's resignation. And sports talk shows became forums for stunned fans, who wondered aloud how long Rose could hold...
THAT'S the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
WHAT prevents the book from becoming unbearably tedious is its sharp wit. There are moments in the book when the readers laugh aloud: a seven-year-old who chainsmokes steals the change he is supposed to be counting; a lisping grade-schooler is cured after doctors find "a button, a staple, a postage stamp and two buffalo nickels" in his stomach; a heated school election eventually degenerates into a food riot...
...deftly links his early biography to the words and books he learned, to connections made. Born in Montreal but raised mostly in Halifax, Robert MacNeil was the son of a seagoing Mountie (in Canada's equivalent of the Coast Guard) and a Nova Scotian mother who delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still have a defining role in modern navies. MacNeil's memories...