Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rockies, blue-purple in the south. The mountains glow orange in New Mexico. In Vermont, your foot cracks snow like wafers around a part of the woods where a brook, not yet frozen, applauds itself in a rush. High over Iowa a hawk hangs still, watching a small boy kick a box in the road...
...days before the shooting spree, Kristofor Hans, a 14-year-old student, walked into his high school in Lewistown, Mont. (pop. 6,900), shot dead a teacher and wounded a vice principal and two students. Friends said the boy was furious over a failing grade...
...been differently named and more modestly dressed. Observes Roger Sale, a professor of English at the University of Washington: "A girl is in a wood. Give her a brother, and one has Hansel and Gretel . . . send the girl to dwarfs, and one has Snow White. Make the girl a boy, and one might have Jack, either the one who climbs beanstalks or the one who kills giants." Make the wood the reaches of space, and they are Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, GoBots or Masters of the Universe...
...remark was prompted by the death of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy named Ramadan Zeitun, who was shot last week during disturbances at the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus. At first it was assumed that the boy had died after Israeli soldiers fired into a crowd of rioters. Later it appeared that he may have been shot by a carful of local Israeli settlers. Either way, his death symbolizes the confusion and chaos that beset the West Bank as it undergoes the worst round of violence there since the spring...
That same spirit now permeates the sports palace of S.M.U., where Biology Professor William Stallcup Jr., S.M.U.'s interim president, declares, "This has united the faculty like never before." Of any good-ole-boy tendency toward backsliding, Philosophy Professor Serge Kappler says, "I can't imagine business as usual again. Faculty and students wouldn't stand...