Word: schoolboyish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rudd is a brazen striver. In the past, Australians deducted points from a candidate for grandiosity. In Rudd's case, there's a schoolboyish transparency about his cheerful ambition to be best in show. Times have also changed. Putting yourself out there is what people do in a networked society, and this has helped Rudd. In his first speech to Parliament on Remembrance Day 1998, the member for Griffith began: "Politics is about power." For those listening in the House that day, Rudd spoke about political philosophy, the role of the state, the great policy challenges facing the nation...
...have the author's subtle wit and love of wordplay on display again, even in small doses. And the book on beasts will be of special interest to the faithful because it purports to be a facsimile of a copy actually owned by Harry Potter and bearing his schoolboyish annotations. When, for example, the author promises "A Brief History of Muggle Awareness of Fantastic Beasts," Harry circles "Brief" and scrawls "you liar." No wonder so many readers love this...