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...ferocious reviews of other poets, particularly in the New Republic and the Nation, that made his name and exacting standards widely known. Deciding that Conrad Aiken had become a lazy poet, Jarrell wrote, "He seems as much at ease as Merlin pulling a quarter from a schoolboy's nose." The best of Jarrell's contemporaries learned to fear his scorn but value his insights. Said Karl Shapiro after Jarrell had roughed him up in print: "I felt as if I had been run over but not hurt." Others, including Aiken, complained bitterly about "this self-appointed judge and executioner." Jarrell...
...Gielgud. Branagh has the animal magnetism of a leading man and the cerebral fire and ice of a character actor. He brings off the hortatory set pieces of command with howling fervor and excels at the gentle comedy of courtship, pouring his heart into the cracked vessel of his schoolboy French as he woos the French princess Katharine (Cecile Paoli...
Judging by the level of outrage against reality-show contestant Jen Schefft, you'd think she'd had sex with an underage schoolboy or walked out on her husband and kids. "I hate her," read a post on realitytvworld.com "She deserves to die an old maid!" read another on America Online. Labeled "heartless," "insecure," "fake," "totally messed up" and a "spoiled, self-serving, gold-digging sorority chick," the event planner from Chicago didn't bother with doing the usual round of postshow interviews...
...Some of the episodes have been grouped into story arcs, such as the "Schoolboys" sequences that humorously outline the guys' awkward adjustment to Western culture. Japanese men who studied by day and worked as house "boys" in the morning and evening were called "schoolboys," and this arc provides a fascinating glimpse at turn of the century domestic life. All of the guys try their hand at being a "schoolboy" but in classic comic style they all repeatedly get the "go home" treatment after screwing up through misunderstandings like removing the stove to clean it or accidentally teaching the parrot...
...Considering his dark contribution, history was remarkably kind to Pol Pot. Born Saloth Sar to a relatively prosperous rice-farming family, he had an eclectic education that included spells as both a Buddhist novitiate and a Roman Catholic schoolboy. A mediocre student, he won a scholarship to study in Paris largely because so few candidates applied. There, the future communist leader read the works of Marx ("I didn't really understand them," he confessed) and, more usefully, a Stalinist political primer that urged "pitiless repression" of all enemies. Inspired in part by the French Revolution, Pol Pot's hotchpotch ideology...