Word: kite
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...aren't we carrying it a bit far to make it the most important component of education? Will memorization help students more than instruction in critical thought and values? I doubt it. But of course that is where the money is. If the government paid for courses on kite flying, every school would teach the flying of kites. FRED FINK Callao, Peru...
...Greater minds than mine see Charlie Brown's follies (pining for the red-haired girl, getting the football yanked away from him, having his kite eaten by a tree) as profound metaphors for man's struggle against the universe, among other things. Sort of a cartoon "Waiting for Godot," I guess. Something about the ease with which the characters got adopted by commercial interests gives me doubts about this. After so many years "Peanuts" began to feel more like comfort-art than anything challenging. But really, just entertaining the idea of Schulz's work as more than doodles means that...
...child's suburban springtime. Jon, the focus of the book, spends his laconic, carefree schooldays fooling around with his best friend Bjorn, reading comic books, eating candy and telling jokes. He lives in a slightly odd, magical universe where a pterodactyl may swoop down and fly off with his kite to his mild surprise. Stilts are used instead of cars and sometimes Jon's father lets him "drive it to the garage." The characters all have the faces of animals, but not in any sort of realistic way. If anything they look like African animist masks that convey the idea...
...spirits?they cannot afford medicine. Neither Farras nor any of his 10 brothers have gone to school?there is no school in their village and, like their father, they will likely be illiterate all their lives. Farras has never had any toys?at home the ruling Taliban banned even kite flying, and here in Pakistan they cannot afford such things in the bazaar...
...have half a day or so to see the city, start by taking a taxi to the Shanghai Museum, at 201 Renmin Avenue, which features China's finest ceremonial bronzes, ceramics and calligraphy. A walk across the People's Square, past waltzing couples and kite-flying youngsters, will take you to the equally impressive Shanghai Art Museum, housed in the carefully renovated Shanghai Race Club at 325 Nanjing Xi Road, which boasts China's top collection of contemporary paintings...