Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helena, Mont., when police picked up a 15-year-old boy for auto theft, the lad said: "I'm not a juvenile delinquent. I don't take hub caps and that kind of stuff. I just steal cars...
...fifth-grade geography class, ten-year-old John Mele wrote in his notebook: "Where along the Atlantic Coastal Plain can oysters be found?" In a seventh-grade history class, twelve-year-old Andrea Gagliardo was studying "The Missionaries in Florida and Louisiana." In an eighth-grade classroom, a boy had written in his spelling book: SKELETON, AMBULANCE, also "What is the definition of fiery...
...Coward's boy-girl-boy geometry lesson starts off simply enough, but soon is complicated because it develops that the boys love each other, too. Coward is never gauche and never explicit, but as you can see, this heightens the interest in his study of apparently useless individuals and their diversions. We are diverted from a squalid studio in Paris to a thinly elegant apartment in London to a blatantly elegant one in New York, which proves that Coward knew that useless individuals also could be profitably diverted to the theatre in those three cities, for the purpose of seeing...
...this emphasis on individual work and achievement makes the scholar peculiarly fitted to act as social elevator boy in modern society. Parents who seeks paths by which their children can transcend the increasingly rigid stratification of American society have discovered that education is practically the only road to the top. Only in the schools can the youngster learn to prefer competition and success to complacency and group approval. And only by succeeding in school can he convince the marketplace that he has the talents it demands. Indeed, the symbolic degree has become so important that even those born...
Manolete was a significant man. And that is why one can sit through a hundred minutes of drivel movie to see fifteen of Manolete. The Death of Manolete is another Spanish Horatio Alger story. The only road to fame and wealth open to a poor Spanish boy as everyone knows by now is the bullring. The whole story, from dodging calves with a wooden sword to the inevitable fatal goring is told through old photographs of varying tones and textures, accompanied by a vaguely familiar soundtrack of bullfight music and roaring crowds...