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Throughout the Philippines, there are tens of thousands of children who are like Robert, and tens of thousands more who are too white. They are called multo, or ghost, if they are light-skinned, and kulot, or curly-haired, if they are dark. A nickname that applies to both groups is Babay na sa, or Bye-bye to daddy. In all, there are 52,000 mixed-race children nationwide, most the unwanted offspring of Western men and Filipina prostitutes. Some, like 16-year-old Robert, live on the streets, surviving on handouts and sniffs of mind-numbing glue. "They...
Stumping the backwoods during one of his presidential campaigns, Andrew Jackson decided to impress his bumpkin constituents with his scholarship, let fly in bear-shaped tones with all the Latin he knew: "E pluribus unum, my friends, sine qua non, ne plus ultra, multo in parvo!" Applause resounded for miles; Jackson not only won the election, but also got an honorary LL.D. Or so says Allen Walker Read, associate professor of English at Columbia University, who tucked tongue in cheek and presented choice samples of fractured Latin in an address to the Linguistic Society of America...
...majority of those who come to marvel that merely human flesh and blood can speak so rapidly, smoothly, and interestingly, remain for an hour under a species of trance in which scenes from the Mediaeval Renaissance and Modern masters flash before the eye to the accompaniment of a symphony--multo allegro--of words...
...question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind was purely a result of improper home-training. Yet semi-religious and multo religious papers still echo the cry of "Harvard irreligion!" Is it that our alumni are sceptics? More Harvard graduates to-day fill our prominent pulpits than the graduates of any two other colleges in the land. Is it that our teaching is purely secular? Why did we come to Harvard...
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