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...first stop on his journey, Kennedy appeared weary. But no sooner did his motorcade start passing through the thundering throngs than the campaigner revived. And throughout West Germany, the crowds responded. Women fainted; indeed, in Frankfurt, one gave birth to a baby right on the street. In Hanau, a schoolboy cried: "He looks like a young Siegfried!" Everywhere, homemade signs danced...
Meehan, who is concentrating in economics, came to Harvard with an impressive track and cross country record. Captain of his high school team for three years, he was Massachusetts cross country champion and the state's top schoolboy miler both indoors and outdoors...
...choice is both daring and appropriate. Her taut Teutonic phrasing, with its Dietrichy ws for rs, never lets the listener forget that a German is telling the story of Germany's shame. "How did it happen in this lovely land?" she asks. Stoumen shows Hitler in his schoolboy days, as a young corporal during World War I. The viewer gets a look at Hitler's competent paintings and drawings (all without a single human figure). Stoumen's cleverest stroke is the use of Kaulbach's illustrations for Goethe's fable of Reynard the Fox, making...
Widening Awe. Through the author's elaborate literary construction, Caldwell-Chiron clumps on two feet or prances on four. In both shapes his portrait is memorable. The other god-teachers, too, are drawn with grace and wit. There is a wry. schoolboy truth in seeing Father Zeus as a capricious pedagogue who tyrannizes teachers and likes to fondle the shoulders of girl students...
...every flunking schoolboy knows, runaway film productions have turned Hollywood from a suburb into a synecdoche, and Hollywood's people are living under every other rock from County Galway to the Areopagus hill. Knock on any castle, there's a star inside. Don't stop to photograph that shabby beggar by the European roadside; he's just a scenario writer looking for work...