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Dallek, a UCLA professor, begins by pausing briefly, but crucially, to examine Reagan's autobiography Where is the Rest of Me?, and a particular episode in which Reagan, a young schoolboy in Dixon, Illinois, remembers seeing his father drunk on the back door-step. The example is illustrative of his general approach; Dallek retrieves from this incident the basic Reagan ethic of self-reliance that Dallek asserts pervades Reagan's policies as president. Moving onward, Dallek tries to show a panoply of instances in which Reagan actions reflect deep-seated personal values. He wants to find the bases of Reagan...
Casually dressed in white shirt and blue trousers, he hurries down the aisle like a schoolboy late for the class-play tryouts, afraid the best parts may have already been cast. But when he mounts the bare stage-its only prop a battered chair that once had pretensions to the regal-a sense of awe seems to overcome...
Close). Soon Henry and Annie have set up house together, leaving Charlotte in silence and Max in a slough of self-pity Annie is so happy that she cannot feel guilty about Max ("His misery just seem . . .not in very good taste"), and Henry is a giddy schoolboy. "I love love," he exults "I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love...
...Melbourne, Hughes covered the North African campaign of World War II and the Korean and Viet Nam wars, and reported on Asia for the Times of London and the Economist. He was the model for the journalist Old Craw in John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy...
...does not speak of having been influenced or inspired in any way. He begins with a description of the architecture of the theater in Saragossa and then mentions some cartoons: "I do remember a French comedian who kept falling down...." Bunuel's nonchalant portrayal of himself as a simple schoolboy is belied by the inclusion of an article written by his sister for the French magazine Positif. The article reveals that he had an artistically active childhood, directing a family puppet theater and delivering, in his early teens, bedtime lectures on Wagner accompanied by his violin...