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...loves is a perennial student who had his way with her three years before, when she was only 14. He calls her to his room from time to time, but only to gobble her up like a biscuit Tortoni and turn back to his books. A love-struck lad from her typing class enjoys her in a muddy construction shack. A rich lawyer picks her up with his big car one night and performs titillating lathery rites with her in his fancy bathroom. Her mother dies of lung cancer. Her father, who spends his time designing unsalably ornate bird cages...
Mallery early set out to study the effect of Sputnik speedups on U.S. high school students. Shunning the big abstractions that one lad called "bull questions," Mallery spent six months visiting eight sample schools, all but one public, in the Northeast and Midwest. His 1962 book. High School Students Speak Out (Harper; $3.75), showed that in many schools pressure for good grades was subtly obscuring the goal of learning. "School is not a place to get educated in," students told him earnestly, "it's to get you into college." Said one: "Our real aim-to grow intellectually-is blocked...
...lonely public house perches on a dune above the wild coast of Mayo; a flute and pipes keen an eerie obbligato to the complaining of the surf. Into the tavern stumbles a tatterdemalion lad, and to the landlord's daughter he says: "I'd trouble you for a glass of porter, woman of the house. I'm destroyed walking...
...than to wit, the inspector is given most of the good lines. "A Boche!" he bellows indignantly when Sellers, setting a trap for the I.P.O. Gang, suggests a German safecracker for a ?250,000 bank robbery. "See 'ere cahn't we give this job to a British lad?" But Sneaky Pete has the sneakiest line in the show. Preoccupied with his problems, he waffles into his flat one evening and whoops absentmindedly for his mistress...
...application showed that the boy was in a dozen and one school activities-but his College Board scores were 200 points below the Stanford average (around 650). A further note from the father implied that Harvard would welcome his son, but the lad "persists in his preference for your institution." An anguished admissions office rejected the boy. Nonetheless, after a creditable year at a junior college, he transferred to Stanford as a sophomore...