Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old spent most of his year in South Africa with the white students at the University of Capetown. He says "the classic Afrikaaner word `jorl,' which means to party, sums up white students in South Africa...
...prophetic conclusion to his underread classic Compulsory Mis-Education, the renowned sociologist Paul Goodman wrote: "In my opinion, the present system is not viable; it is leading straight to 1984....The change, when it comes will not be practical and orderly...
...retired longshoreman as he hobnobs with the crew, rehearses the cast and then stands back to watch the action, his eyes twinkling. Between takes, Mailer crosses the street to another pub and peers in at noisy real- life revelers. "Look at this," he roars with proprietary delight. "That's classic Provincetown...
...adventures on his way to reunion with his family are fully consonant with what we have been taught to believe are the experiences of our immigrant ancestors, and they are imaginatively enlivened by being rendered from a mouse's-eye view. The animation and the backgrounds occasionally fall below classic Disney standards, but the characterizations, both visual and vocal, are entirely endearing. Since Director Bluth (The Secret of NIMH) is a Disney graduate who has been bluntly critical of his former studio's current standards and practices in this field, his mouse may have a subtext to match its soul...
Right now the idea is just a gleam in the eyes of U.S. officials in Sri Lanka. But if they have their way, the snake-devouring mongoose, celebrated in the 1894 Kipling classic Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, may eventually replace the German shepherd as the drug sniffer of choice at some international airports. The U.S. embassy in Colombo is so intrigued with the idea that it has asked the State Department for $10,000 to fund a mongoose training school at the Colombo...