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...that to his 100-yard-plus performance in last week's 29-14 Yardling triumph over Naval Academy Prep and you begin to understand why the former Boston Clobe "Schoolboy Player of the Year" award winner is being touted as the future transfusion for Harvard's anemic varsity backfield...
...Honourable Schoolboy. Le Carr...
...though, the red-headed native of Brunswick, Ohio was getting acclimated to the Crimson system as a schoolboy at St. Ignatius High, where he blocked for future Harvard quarterback Jim Kubacki. His senior year in high school, Benninger and Kubacki were co-captains of a team that was ranked number one in the Clevel and area. That season Benninger was tabbed for all-conference, all-scholastic, and all-Northeastern Ohio honors...
...situations, Le Carré's worlds may not be precise, but they carry the air of verisimilitude?and that is enough. The author is, after all, not a master spy but a master spy novelist. His success at simulation comes as much from research as from instinct. For The Honourable Schoolboy, for example, Cornwell made five trips to Southeast Asia. Pinned down by automatic weapons fire in Cambodia, he dived under a car and coolly noted his impressions on file cards...
...fact, fact, fact." He has a special affection for an imagined cast: "I can see myself, like Balzac, inquiring after them on my deathbed." Such admiration can be as seductive?and as lethal?as a spy's gentleness. For despite its style and tongue-and-groove plotting, The Honourable Schoolboy sometimes displays a Balzacian tendency to turn urges into passions, to exaggerate expression into melodrama. Moreover, facts, facts, facts are better left to the journalist-reprobates. Le Carré's long suit is not, after all, reportage, but a "second soul" that amplifies the century's dilemmas...