Word: sandbox
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Everyone remembers a time in childhood when, while quietly playing in the school sandbox all of your friends started to throw sand at one another...
When you got caught for throwing sand, the consequences were transitory: Mrs. Eliot didn't hold your violation against you for very long, and you were free to return to the sandbox the next...
When Mrs. Eliot threw me out of the sandbox, I was bitter for weeks...
...become, in Saul Bellow's words, the "moral resort area" of the West: "What Switzerland is to winter holidays and the Dalmatian coast to summer tourists, Israel and the Palestinians are to the West's need for justice." The West Bank alone offers the moral tourist a sandbox full of paradoxes, ironies and ambiguities too neat, and cheap, to refuse. For the Israeli these are questions of life and death; for the traveling moralist (lives there a columnist who has not made the hajj?), they are an occasion for indignation and advice, the consequences of which...
...classic study in contrasts. Thompson the Dionysian, Hingsen the Apollonian; the fiery fullback and the shining knight. Thompson, an infectious extravert from a working-class neighborhood of London who blithely chatters away whether or not anyone is listening, treats the field of play as though it were an enormous sandbox. Hingsen performs without wasted motion or emotion, intently striking the perfect form even in his warmups...