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...Meanwhile, the nuns are taking a brief vacation and awaiting the court's ultimate decision, or the diocese's change of mind. Amid such an unseemly, if significant, dispute, the education of Sacred Heart's students is suffering. Says Michelle Simeone, 10, a former Sacred Heart pupil now enrolled in public school: "I loved my school, and the nuns felt like my relatives. They were nice, and the discipline was good for me. I wish I was still there, and if the nuns come back I'll come back. It's just not fair...
...Different Seasons offers a dazzling display of how writing can appeal to people who do not ordinarily like to read. King uses language the same way the baseball fan seated behind the home-team dugout uses placards: to remind those present of what they have already seen. In Apt Pupil, for example, a 13-year-old boy tracks down a Nazi war criminal hiding out in his own Southern California suburb. When he confronts the fugitive, the youth is disappointed by the old man's accent: "It didn't sound . . . well, authentic. Colonel Klink on Hogan...
Each journalist recounts horrific incidents of government waste, incompetent planning and incoherent design. China was once Joseph Stalin's most pupil, and though it broke with more than a decade ago, the legacy of Soviet "intensive industrialization" Butterfield cites the all-too-typical $13.3 billion mill designed to manufacture 3 million tons of steel a year. When the Chinese turned on the switch, they found the plant demanded more electric than the entire surrounding could produce...
...title of the play derives from the act of a boy named John Taplow (Bruce Wall). The one pupil who fears Crocker-Harris but does not hate him, Taplow brings the teacher a going-away present, a secondhand copy of Robert Browning's translation of Agamemnon. The seemingly granitic "Crock" is riven by tears. The reliably bitchy Millie quickly dries his eyes by suggesting that the boy is simply buttering him up to get a passing grade...
...liaison prefigured the tension of a lifetime. Martin Heidegger, the great analyst of anxiety and a founder of existentialism, was an upright professor, 17 years older than his star pupil, trained as a Catholic, the father of two sons. Arendt was 18, freethinking, Jewish. These disparities were as nothing compared with the ones that followed. In the '30s, Arendt remained a Jew; Heidegger became a Nazi...