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...Australia has discovered film, it has rediscovered its own past. Some of the finest Australian films (Picnic at Hanging Rock, My Brilliant Career, Breaker Morant) are set on the cusp of the 20th century, when the country was approaching federation and its citizens were struggling for an identity apart from that of decorous Mother England. This was a country in adolescent turbulence. No wonder, then, that so many Australian novels (and now films) are tales of young nonconformists seeking liberation through maturity or anarchy. In The Getting of Wisdom, a bright upstart triumphs over the snobbery of her classmates...
Martin Fridson '74, Jeffrey A. Danziger '78, John M. Tavares '77, Daniel Waugh '77, Ramon Morant '78, Tim Gorski '77-2, Benjamin G. Davis '77, Daniel W. Moore '76, Chris Savage '77, George Varughese '77, and Jarius L. DeWalt '76 work for Southwestern...
...Richard Morant, as Gerald Flashman, is an ideal smirking cruel dandy, and Iain Cuthbertson, as the headmaster Doctor Arnold, presents an acceptable outward resemblance to the pious Victorian reformer. But in attempting to portray Arnold at all on television, problems arise that Hughes never faced in his novel. On a TV screen there is no way to show the headmaster as he appeared to a 12-year-old boy. So taking refuge in a stereotype is pardonable, even if the stereotype is something of a distortion...
...June 1870, a Boston schooner skipper named Lorenzo Baker stopped at Port Morant, Jamaica, for a cargo of bamboo and some rum punch. While refreshing himself he bought-apparently with some misgiving-a load of bananas at 25? a bunch. The bananas were a bonanza; in the U.S. they brought $2.50 a bunch, and Captain Baker quickly went into the banana hauling business. Since then his company has grown into United Fruit Co., the world's largest banana producer and carrier (1957 sales: $342.3 million), which currently accounts for 60% of the U.S. market. United grew so large that...
...June, on Blue Mountain and Morant Estates in the Parish of St. Thomas, the coconut pickers were on strike for a week, then went back to work at their old rate. The week before the strike they did twice their usual work so that they would lose nothing by a week of rest...