Word: beaten
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Some had to march out to work in the fields every day, they say, lashed together. Recalcitrants were beaten with a 3-ft. length of plastic pipe called "the rod of correction." Serious infractions were to be punished by days in a new jail cell. It was tiny, only 24 sq. ft., but then so were its prospective inmates, boys from five to 17. The compound in Walterboro, S.C., is not a prison but a Dickensian boarding school called the New Bethany Baptist Church Home for Boys. Police raided the place last week. Said Prosecutor Randolph Murdaugh...
Some seniors writing theses would give their left arms to be able to flip through issue after issue of Vogue magazine in search of fashions by Christian Dior, but James H. Lubowitz would probably have already beaten them to the magazine stacks--and he was doing research for his thesis. Most undergraduate don't circle the globe for credit, but Janet W. Rich and Michael P. Adams wound up doing their thesis research in Australia and Peru respectively. The variety of senior theses is always astounding--here is a lively sampling of some of this year's crop that were...
...inability to communicate and the near fist-fights, past the violent clash of cultures, it may just be that Lionel was somehow "typical"--like the rest of Harvard, only more so. If Harvard is about special people, leaders of their respective communities, people who refuse to follow the beaten path, then Lionel wrote the book on all of those qualities freshman year. If Harvard is about diversity, and people learning from people who are different from them, this describes virtually every moment of life in Lionel, from talking politics to arguing over which channel to watch. And at the very...
...lead a country enduring a hellish civil war, where the ruling class has been particularly resistant to social reform. By trying to reform and perhaps even redeem El Salvador, he told one group, "I'm putting my life on the line." In 1972 he was imprisoned and beaten by the army he will now lead. Democratic Congressman Clarence Long of Maryland, a leading critic of Reagan's Latin American policies, was persuaded. "He's been tested and he's courageous," he said of Duarte. "He's our kind...
Things get worse in the mountaintop hostel; the men who descend to the village to buy provisions are beaten up regularly. Yet no one thinks this strange; no one seems to be afflicted by a foreboding of doom. The book ends flatly, without the customary distant rumbling of a world's end and with no sense of cautionary exhortation by the author. Any such message-that tribalistic savagery is mankind's eternal, bone-bred evil, perhaps-would be excessive. Appelfeld simply and affectingly bears witness, and in the end, his sole, muted voice is more effective than...