Word: schoolyard
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...definitive moment of Noam Chomsky’s life came when he was only six years old. One day after class, one of Chomsky’s classmates threatened to beat up a defenseless fat kid in the schoolyard with the help of his older brother. Chomsky describes his reaction to the scene in the documentary Manufacturing Consent: “I remember going up to stand next to him. I did for a while, but then I got scared and went away. I was very much ashamed of it afterwards. I felt—I’ll never...
Instead of standing up to the bully by himself, Chomsky should convince the rest of the kids in the schoolyard to rise up with him and actually make the bully back down...
...Sept. 15]. Although this might be considered good advice from a psychologist, it is folly from a national-policy point of view. The U.S. was not attacked by a troublemaker from whom we should simply turn away. This is a war, not an academic debate over cultural norms or schoolyard bullies. Iyer said we should learn something from the Japanese, who embraced their conquerors. He forgot that they did so only after years of brutal war and a total defeat. Remember Pearl Harbor? There is no way we can "move on" after the 9/11 attacks. Keith N. Meader Hong Kong...
...rock movement worth its salt sells a few records. Many magazines comparing the garage rock revival to the early 90’s grunge movement failed to mention that grunge kicked off with the #1 debut of Nirvana’s Nevermind, which easily sold three million copies to schoolyard bullies and their victims alike within a year’s time. The album set the tone for an entire subsequent decade of platinum-plated alternative radio, forcing the work of vastly untalented bands like Bush, Live and Creed into countless suburban households...
Halfway through his long day's journey into night, and day again, Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) launches into a rant against New York: "F___ you and this city and everyone in it!" He spreads his venom ecumenically--to the Pakistani cab drivers and the black schoolyard studs and the Soprano wannabes in Bensonhurst, and to the Irish-American boyos of whom Monty is one. It's a swell swill of gutter poetry--written by novelist-screenwriter David Benioff and vigorously illustrated in a tabloid-surrealist style by director Spike Lee--that touches on everything New Yorkers, and Americans, love...