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Some Britons agree that caning is inhumane and should not be practiced. This position was emphasized on the day of the vote by a London Standard photo of Schoolboy Barry Tavner, 13, displaying his beaten bottom after he received five strokes from his headmaster for getting low grades. Ironically, Tavner, who attends a private school, will not be affected by the ban. Others have long advocated allowing teachers to strike. Said a Welsh councilman: "Sending a teacher into a classroom with no cane is like sending a boxer into the ring with one hand tied behind his back...
...Stoppard's staging of his own The Real Inspector Hound, followed by Sheridan's dizzying spoof of epic tragedy, The Critic, last seen on Broadway 40 years ago in a production that featured Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson in roles that McKellen and Petherbridge play. Hound is a schoolboy-clever send-up of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, with all its clunking contrivances, coupled with the petulant fantasies of a second-string critic (Petherbridge) about an uprising by all the world's also-rans. Delightful all the way, it is nonetheless utterly upstaged by Sheridan's farce...
Even so, there was something of the perpetual schoolboy in the don during his 20s, and as Skidelsky observes, "No one in England gets far on brains alone." Keynes would not or could not be charming. As he bitterly appreciated, his lanky, uncoordinated body and equine face were not assets. Virginia Woolf placed him among the Bloomsbury men she classified as deficient in "physical splendour." "Rude" was one of the words his friends used to describe him, to which Skidelsky adds "arrogant" and "prickly...
...another matter. Several years ago he brought school-boyish charm to the role of an inept superhero in the short-lived television series The Greatest American Hero. In House, he plays the part of an angst-ridden Vietnam vet with the same schoolboyish charm and humor. Unfortunately, angst and schoolboy don't go well together...
...There is no going back in pleasure. "Bother!" said Toad. He picked up a No. 1 Eberhard Faber pencil. He eyed it with the despair of a suddenly toothless gourmand confronting a life of strained carrots and peas. He found a schoolboy's lined notebook and started to write...