Word: schoolboy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Newtonian heritage to us, in any case, is pervasive. W.H. Auden in 1939 wrote lines that might have been composed about, say, Kosovo last winter: "I and the world know/ what every schoolboy learns./ Those to whom evil is done/ do evil in return." What is that but Newton's third law of motion? Einstein's image of Newton as a child occurred, oddly enough, to Newton himself. Maybe that's where Einstein got it. Just before he died, Newton remarked, "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been...
...AWAY, and his roar and mane were leonine. But underneath that mask of grumpiness was one of the softest and kindest men I've ever met. He was constantly interweaving the lives of the people he knew, making sure they were cared for. Joe could be gleeful as a schoolboy about the success of Catch-22, and he often said how grateful he was for the G.I. Bill--otherwise he wouldn't have been able to afford college...
...Clinton wunderkind and now ABC commentator, who couldn't answer. Sultan of Brunei, McCain said, going on to make his point that three of the five richest men in the world now live near Seattle, and the new millennium presents challenges and opportunities no one imagined. And then, with schoolboy delight, he called out, "Stephanopoulos flunked the quiz...
...world's a movie, and young men have their favorite characters in it. At first the infant, amidst his mewling and puking, finds time for admiring a DC superhero--Batman, Superman or another. Then, the whining schoolboy serves his apprenticeship to a star athlete. Only in adolescence, however, do maturing young men, be they lovers or soldiers, recognize the virtues of British secret agents...
...dull--and a very aggressive score that tells you what you would have felt if the film (from the director of The Sweet Hereafter) had been made with more passion and craft. Only Hoskins rises above the dankness. His malevolence is fastidious, wistful; he's a sadist with a schoolboy's heart...