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It is difficult to compare May Seventh schools to anything in the West or, for that matter, in other Communist countries. Even the late Edgar Snow (The Long Revolution) found an Alice in Wonderland quality about the schools, calling them "reform schools for reformers." With memories of the Cultural Revolution...
A handshake becomes an ordeal. Turning a doorknob sends twinges of pain through the forearm. Swinging a racket at a tennis ball-especially if the ball hits off center-causes a sensation that some players compare with being hit in the elbow by a hammer. These are all symptoms of...
Figuring that I should compare Private School Girls with something else, I ventured out a couple of days later to see what The Cocktail Hostesses at the West End Cinema had to offer. I should have known better. This bit of cinematic diarrhea runs about 80 minutes. The "plot" is...
All four prisoners were in their early 20s−tough, streetsmart, prison-wise. They compared jails the way Yalies compare prep schools. They shied away from pointing to specific causes for the fight. "All the tensions just came out," said Earl Moore, Pontiac head of the Disciples. Gang rivalries had...
Or maybe I should compare them to a more potent insect. Once a white politician told Sojourner Truth, the black abolitionist leader: "Woman, I care no more for you than a mosquito." "Maybe so," she said, "but, praise God, I'll keep you scratching."