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...made good that promise with George Smiley, who was a walk-on in The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. But these Circus clowns and aerialists will no longer live on promises: in The Honourable Schoolboy they jostle and clamor for the reader's attention. Fieldmen, office workers, a parade of journalists and reprobates (The Honourable Schoolboy finds the two synonymous), half-castes and Orientals give the book the richness of a Victorian novel of manners...
...more intimacy, but he is careful to label them as mere "entertainments," like a student caught doodling when he should be cramming for exams. Le Carré carries no such liabilities or self-deprecations. His books are written from the inside out. "There is a kind of fatigue which only fieldmen know" observes The Honourable Schoolboy, "a temptation to gentleness which can be the kiss of death." And, "It is a charming arrogance of diplomats the world over to suppose they set an example?to whom, or of what, the devil himself will never know." Such sly aperçus are those...
Except for a few new faces in the javelin competition, the squad expects to go with most of the old workhorses. Once again the fieldmen will be looking to pick up a slew of points. ICCA and all Ivy selections Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace and Mel Embree will be up to their old jumping tricks, taking the Ivies by storm. Opposing coaches will have their hands filled trying to figure out where Vanderpool-Wallace will strike next this spring. Stowell expects the durable Bahaman to fill in at long jump triple jump, and sprint medley, with an occasional high jump stint...
McCurdy said yesterday that he believes the winter track team will be balanced between track and field, but the stronger will probably be the fieldmen...
Like their elders, whom they emulate with such verve, the CRNC chief and the soon-to-be fieldmen recognize the maxim of Watergate politics. Internal political operations are to be kept secret--unless you happen to believe in open government or there is a way to spy on the other guy's operations without anybody knowing what...