Word: satchell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Laugh, all of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, represent more of the same. In these last stories Perelman drifts more and more into a cosmic nostalgia which he fails to connect to anything relevant to non-octagenarian readers, Stories like And Then the Whining Schoolboy With His Satchel, in which the 15-year-old Perelmanesque character finds himself accused for plagiarizing Cooper, Kipling, Stevenson. The Riders of the Purple Sage and half a dozen other works in an autobiographical essay for a tenth grade class, makes it pretty far across the historical gulf. The scenario is ticklish...
Bell explained for the first time why Paige always said that Cool Papa could turn out the lights and be in bed before the room got dark. "We stayed in old hotels and one night Satchel and I were rooming together and I got back to the room before him. Well this light switch on the wall must have had a short in it because I went over and flipped it and got in bed, and after I got in bed the lights went out. I said, 'Oh, I'm gonna tell Satchel something now.' Satchel comes...
...grievance of many Viet Nam veterans. Douglas MacArthur warned against an Asian land war; he was right. There were no front lines. Reality tended to melt into layers of unknowability. The same person could be a friend and an enemy?the smiling laundress in the morning carried a V.C. satchel charge at night. The enemy might even be a child with a basket. The ambiguity made Americans twitch. "My Lai?" says Larry Mitchell. "There were lots of My Lais...
...then, you have to wonder a little bit about the man with the satchel of explosives. If he is so smart, why does he leave, where any dumb flatfoot can find it, a map with one of his targets circled...
...indeed, the later disbelief of his colleagues on Capitol Hill, one of the legislators Criden got interested in the sheik was New Jersey Democrat Frank Thompson, 61, a most admired and respected member of the House. Although Thompson was not photographed picking up any cash, Criden accepted a satchel containing $50,000-and, according to Government sources, he was taped saying he was doing so for the Congressman. Thompson's own words of willingness to help the sheik had been recorded earlier...