Word: schoolboy
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...many Soviet viewers, the program provided the first real glimpse of the horrors of nuclear war. Said a schoolboy of 14 who had seen pictures of mushroom clouds but not of an A-bomb's effects on the ground: "I never imagined that nuclear bombs could be so destructive...
...artist's narrative skills would have made him a stand out, but the detail of his drawing was what elevated him to the status of pop father figure. All his early jobs gave him a Rube Goldbergian fascination with mechanical comedy; his plots were researched the way a schoolboy would do a term paper-by turning to the National Geographic and Scientific American. "If you're going to be in the Andes, it had to look like the Andes," he insists. "Some of those other artists put their characters in China, but they drew...
...when Jakov Lind was an eleven-year-old schoolboy, the Nazis goose-stepped into his home city of Vienna, sending him fleeing to Holland and a lifetime of Diaspora. Something more than a Jew without a country, Lind became a displaced artist as well, without a sure tradition or even a language. He wrote at first in German; now he uses English. He lives in London, in New York, in Majorca. He has variously conducted his literary experiments in short stories (Soul of Wood), novels (Landscape in Concrete), autobiography (Counting My Steps) and even scores of radio plays...
...drawing and illuminated texts. Unlike the grave, sentimental narrator of Brideshead, Charles the teen-ager can sound as curmudgeonly as his middle-aged maker: "I think the invention of movable type was a disaster, sir. It destroyed calligraphy." There is a dearth of incident, and most of the schoolboy repartee reads like a twit's guide to the jargon of the better classes...
...COMPLETE CLERIHEWS OF E. CLERIHEW BENTLEY; Oxford; 145 pages; $12.95. In 1890 a 16-year-old schoolboy at St. Paul's in London was touched by a slightly disheveled muse. He wrote...