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Frank B. wanted his son Frank A. to be a cut off the old rind. "I am going to make a cheese man out of you," he announced firmly. More than 30 years ago, young Frank, then in his early manhood, inherited about $2,000,000 from his grandparents (on his mother's side), but dutifully went into father's business. He sampled cheese-eating four to seven pounds a day. He could tell by how a cheese tasted and felt what part of the country and even what herd of cows it came from. But his heart...
...fight to regain our manhood from Western colonial rulers only to surrender it to rulers among ourselves who seize the power to keep us enslaved?" demanded the Philippines' Carlos Romulo. Added Pakistan's Ali: "We [must not be] misled into opening our doors to a more insidious form of imperialism that masquerades in the guise of liberation...
...Shmulik the Orphan, Gergeleh the Thief, and Feivel the Lip. The boys glory in three maxims: 1) "Always disobey your parents," 2) "Be sure to hate your teacher," 3) "Never fear the Lord." His death in 1916 prevented Author Aleichem from carrying his boyhood story over the threshold of manhood, but even as it stands, The Great Fair is a charmingly apt epitaph for the Yiddish Mark Twain...
...that therefore we must behave to them as to members of our own family. It does seem to me that this understanding can grow with his growing experience of life, and though . . . there may be some difficulties, I feel this is not an understanding which will be outgrown with manhood...
Concludes Lindner: "This is the very soil in which mass manhood and psychopathy take root and grow. Our adolescents are but one step forward from us upon the road to mass manhood. Into them we have bred our fears and insecurities; upon them we have foisted our mistakes and misconceptions. They are imprisoned by the blunders and delusions of us, their predecessors, and like all prisoners they are mutineers in their hearts...