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...weeks after the primary, Rappaport has had Massachusetts to himself, like a schoolboy at recess while the rest of the class stayed in detention...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: A Long Trip Downhill | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...York City. For the first time in the U.S., books, manuscripts, drawings and objects from the famous college (prep school, to Americans) that has been molding the English elite since 1440. Among the choice displays: the holograph of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), by onetime Eton schoolboy Thomas Gray. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 8, 1990 | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...fiercest in showing how the proper bourgeoisie reacts to, and is repeatedly bested by, the convention-scorning Phelans. The story's most intense drama is generated not by the search for the killer, but by the question of whether the one decent-seeming Phelan, an amiable schoolboy, is for real and will stay that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who And Why | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...February for sweeping income tax increases to offset the public-sector deficit, sparking two months of often violent strikes and street demonstrations. Little used to overt dissent, the government responded with force. Police and soldiers broke up protests using truncheons, tear gas and occasionally live ammunition. One schoolboy was shot dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa Continental Shift | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...flog his musicians with images of leaves -- let alone leaves whimpering in denial -- would be hooted off the podium at the first fluttering whimp. Thomas learned a lesson on this point in his callow days during a rehearsal of Also Sprach Zarathustra with the Chicago Symphony. All his schoolboy nattering on the intellectual subtext of Strauss evoked only sly mockery from the musicians. At length, Thomas got the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS: A Musical Pilgrim's Progress | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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