Word: brotherism
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...instructors and authors of best-selling manners manuals are progeny of the high-class aesthetes Mao tried to eradicate. Professor Li of the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade is the descendant of a cotton tycoon, and grew up eating Western fare like rye bread and cheese for breakfast. His brother, a doctor, was killed during the Cultural Revolution. The fact that Li leads classes on Western etiquette says something about how far China has come since the days of Mao, but it is also a reminder of the gaps that still exist between China and the developed world...
...Adkins opened a small restaurant on Western Avenue with his mother and brother. Although the restaurant has since closed, the family continues to own the laundromat next door...
...chosen to become a martyr. His angry words are not recorded, however, because the cameraman was concentrating on his falafel sandwich. The dark irony of his deflated diatribe both amuses and overwhelms the viewer with compassion for him. It somehow feels akin to watching a younger brother flounder in a play while no one pays attention to his efforts...
...from his psychiatrist that the show’s hero Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is, through a jumble of expert technical terms, very smart and empathetic. Scofield, you see, intentionally landed himself in the big house in order to hatch an intricate plan to spring his wrongfully-convicted brother before said brother’s scheduled execution. You’re a genius, doc! But then, in the midst of all the unintentional comedy and over-acting, come the payoffs. Consider the following: a sequence at the end of the latest episode, in which Scofield’s nephew...
...Cyril B. Wilcox, a Harvard sophomore on the verge of flunking out, gassed himself to death at his family’s home in Fall River, Mass. Over the next few days, G. Lester Wilcox ’14 found two letters addressed to his younger brother revealing that Cyril was involved in Harvard’s homosexual scene. Lester tracked down Cyril’s former lover, roughed him up, and extracted the names of several gay students. After Lester Wilcox tipped off administrators, Lowell secretly convened a panel of three deans, a professor, and a prominent alum. This...