Word: biehl
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Peter and Katarina set out to discover what purpose really lies behind the discipline under which they are forced to live. He gains what he thinks is a crucial insight when he hears Biehl mention Darwinism, the survival of the fittest, and then add that "we alleviate its consequences." Peter realizes that his classmates, saved and damned, have not grasped Biehl's comment: "Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline...
...query comes from a narrator whose name is Peter (a detail he drops a third of the way through his story). Now a grown man, he looks back on himself at age 14, an orphan who, after a brief lifetime in various institutions, has unexpectedly been sent to Biehl's Academy, a prestigious school on the outskirts of Copenhagen...
Peter recognizes Biehl's as an improvement over the previous places to which he was assigned. There is adequate food, heat in the buildings, and 26 teachers responsible for only 240 students. But there are occasional cuffings for rule infractions or poor lesson performance, plus the dictatorship of clocks and bells: "It was not just the classes and assembly that began on the dot. There was also a study period and the meals and the chores and voluntary sports and lights-out and when you had to get up if you were to manage a proper wash...
Three South African blacks who killed Amy Biehl, an American Fulbright Scholar, were given sentences of 18 years in prison, avoiding the death penalty. The judge said that the killers could be rehabilitated even though they haven't shown remorse for the brutal, racially-motivated slaying, which took place last August outside Cape Town...
Three blacks were convicted today in the racial murder of an American student last year after a long and divisive trial that garnered world-wide media attention. Amy Biehl, 26, a Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, Calif. was in South Africa working on voter education and doing research on women's rights, when she was stabbed and bludgeoned to death in August by a mob near Cape Town. The conviction concludes a trial that dragged on for months because witnesses to the murder weren't forthcoming at first. But after they testified, "there was really no doubt in anybody...