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Burgess Hill is the tight little isle's loosest "freedom" (progressive) school. Shunning all rules, it allows boys and girls aged 7 to 17 to smoke, swear, pet, go barefoot, stay dirty-and study only if they care to. The school looks it: a crumbling Victorian mansion with peeling ochre paint and broken windows, its front pillars alternately scrawled with "Ban the Bomb" and "Keep the Bomb." Inside is a happy jumble of paintpots, squashed toffees, dirty clothes and unmade beds. Scribbled over the walls are drawings, poems and odd messages. Sample: "I've been sick...
...Barefoot & Ragged. In his short lifetime (he was 43 when he died), Gorky knew more than his share of sorrow. Born Vosdanig Adoian in Turkish Armenia, he was three when his father deserted the family and ran away to avoid being conscripted into the Turkish army. During the Turkish massacres of the Armenians, his mother fled with the boy and his three sisters to Erivan in Russian Armenia. After his mother died at the age of 38, Gorky and his youngest sister decided to go to the U.S. Barefoot and ragged, they made their way to Tiflis. There they joined...
Like Willkie, Romney has achieved his reputation in business, and has impresed potential voters by his brashness and pugnacity. But the real similarity between Romney and "the barefoot boy of Wall Street" lies deeper: both have something of the "dreamy kid" about them, an almost childlike faith in an ultimate reconciliation. Romney's call to "return American politics to the American people," like Willkie's plea for "One World," indicates a deep-felt desire to widen the boundaries of "the possible" in politics...
Galbraith, Paul N. Warburg professor of Economics, has travelled extensively through India, walking barefoot in rice paddies and "mixing closely with the people." UPI said. "In doing so he apparently contracted the two diseases," the agency reported...
...internationalization of the Roman Curia and for greater freedom for themselves to adapt church practices to the needs of their flocks. Missionary diocesans, for example, believe that most Indians, who take off their shoes to enter temples, would find Catholicism more acceptable if priests said the Mass barefoot or in stocking feet...