Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the very first chapter. How can one believe the Sandinistas' statement that the contras pose no real threat while in the same breath they point to devestating damage inflicted by the US-backed rebels? Rushdie is trapped by contradictions that he never even sees. In a country of boy soldiers who are "already so familiar with death that they have lost respect for it," in a country that has lost the equivalent of an entire year's production to war the causes of conflict beg to be addressed...
...dropout, and the Manhattan-born son of Puerto Rican parents, invested $3,000 to start a small manufacturing company in a renovated brick garage in a desolate area of the South Bronx. Five years later Mariotta struck up a partnership with Fred Neuberger, a mechanical engineer who as a boy had escaped Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. The firm, then known as Welbilt Electronics, struggled to survive, winning only a few small contracts...
...shooting at his new doghouse with a .44 Magnum." The Jamesian restraint of the language -- not "Blam, blam, blam, wood chips glinted in the dusty air," but a dreamlike, almost passive kind of doghouse blasting -- foreshadows subtle stuff. The hero, we sense, is a country boy (the name Duane, and the implication that there is enough vacant acreage behind the doghouse so that stray bullets won't perforate anything important) whose new prosperity (the hot tub) leaves him strangely dissatisfied (the pulsating jets do not soothe him) and struggling to express his feelings (that hogleg Magnum...
With his wife by his side and a phalanx of cameras clicking, the shy Hartpence boy who changed his name while attending Yale Law School in 1961 spoke tearfully about his home and his parents. In the past Hart has been reluctant to discuss his stern upbringing in the Church of the Nazarene or the fact that his family lived in 16 homes over 18 years. This time he compared his childhood with the uncomplicated lives of the kids on TV's Happy Days. Yet he stumbled when a fourth-grader asked him if he would ever return to live...
...nail that sticks up must be hammered down. When Sixth-Grader Tetsuya Osawa returned to Tokyo from New York City, he encountered hostility. Classmates ridiculed his Americanized way of shrugging his shoulders in answer to questions and his practice of opening doors for girls. Osawa's teacher informed the boy's mother he must "act like a Japanese person." In short order, Osawa developed a stress-related ulcer and had to be transferred to a private international school. Adults hardly fare better. Says Koji Kato, chief researcher at the National Institute of Education: "Returnees are regarded as kind of guests...