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This is no Horatio Alger story of a boy picking himself up from nothing. It is far closer to something Upton Sinclair would have written. A major subtext of the book is Freddie's maturity as a person coinciding with his political awakening. This begins during an exciting sequence when he finds himself caught up in a protest against the Henry Ford plant. Like a scene from an Eisenstein movie, the protesters face Ford's gun thugs by singing the International, leading to a horrific massacre. Later Freddie and Sam join a group of outcasts working together...
...humor in a foreign culture. It becomes much more real to you when that happens. It’s a basic humanist idea. THC: Which of the Afghani students inspired you the most? LM: I had the strongest connection to Palwasha, the young girl with the crush on the boy she wasn’t allowed to talk to. She was 19 and so brash and flirty and fun. She clearly wanted to have a more interesting life than she was able to have in a two-room apartment with her mother and sister. She had an insatiable curiosity about...
...cards stamped and sipped Smirnoff Ice. Post-crumping/crunking/whatever you kids are calling it these days, the hip-hop crew rubbed up against each other at the Expressions party in Currier. Sigma Chi’s Hammed in Hawaii boasted alcohol-soaked fruit and alcohol-themed decorations. The annual Boy Band Party in Adams was a supremely good time. How often do you get the chance to sweatily headbang to *NSync and Kelly Clarkson (and not just alone in your room)? SATURDAY Mammoth postering efforts and that weird playhouse outside the Science Center were unable to draw a crowd...
Then Polly’s sickly aunt dies of liver failure. Within days of the funeral, Polly announces her engagement to her newly widowed uncle, Boy Dougdale. The family is horror-stricken; Lady Montdore vows to cut Polly off without a cent. The repulsive Boy Dougdale—nicknamed the Lecherous Lecturer on account of the “things he does to little girls”—seems slightly shocked as well. Polly, though, is floating on a cloud of bliss...
...North Carolina, a Philippine-Chinese-American, and several very blond students from the American heartland, including a white supremacist who defended her family's racism in front of the class. This extraordinary mix of students strikes me as a perfect representation of America, a land where a boy raised at the back of an Indian grocery store in London easily started a friendship with a boy from Morning Sun, Iowa, population...