Word: schoolboys
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...balloon blizzard at the finale and Bush's batting them around like a schoolboy...
...might almost be translated from the Japanese. Yet here are all these values, in the midst of an instantly recognizable England, in 1956! The book's author, Kazuo Ishiguro, who moved to England from Nagasaki at the age of five, grew up simultaneously as a Japanese and an English schoolboy, and so can see that the two are scarcely different. "I think there are a lot of things about the Japanese way of communicating that I don't know about," he says, "simply because I don't know my way around the codes. But the actual Japanese method, the actual...
...Black conservative delusion. I daresay that Roger Landry, Adam Jones and other members of Peninsula would not dare fashion an anti-Italian poster with a denigrating reference to the Mafia, or an anti-Jewish poster with a denigrating, anti-Semitic reference to Jewish Americans. The Peninsula crowd of schoolboy racists would not dare do this...
Fugard sets his story of a white schoolboy and the two Black men who have befriended him (while working for his parents) in his native South Africa. Master Harold, called "Hally" (Brian Kleppe), wears a tie and blazer to school and comes home to the cramped St. George's Park Tea Room, where the entire one act play takes place. Sam (Jomo I. L. Ray) and Willie (E. William McGlaston), wiping the counter and scrubbing the floor, await him there...
...upon the grief of others. But on the first weekend of the air war against Iraq, I found myself impelled toward these sunken slabs on the Mall, as if this were the proper moment to seek communion with the wall of names. My thoughts jumbled as I stood there: schoolboy patriotism, the waste of war, the sands of time. Finally, I murmured, "I hope we have learned the right lessons from Vietnam. I hope I have...