Word: schoolyard
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...thought to himself, ‘Son of a bitch, he is right.’” After being called “a political hypocrite and a moral coward” by one of his arch rivals in 1958, Goldwater shoots back, “schoolyard-style,” that his opponent should “look into the mirror and see who is the coward.” And as adoring crowds chant, “We Want Barry! We Want Barry!,” Goldwater, impatiently commanding the podium, growls his trademark line...
...seems primitive and, in its way, hilarious that the Americans and Chinese should be stuck at the equivalent of Bugs and Daffy's "Duck Season! Wabbit Season!" - a stalemated schoolyard argument. You will recall that in the cartoon, Bugs Bunny, the great American trickster, won that exchange by the simple expedient of reversing the order and insisting that it was, indeed, wabbit season. Which led the witless Duck to insist, in his turn, that it was, damn it, duck season. BLAM...
...Therefore, let America reverse the schoolyard logic for an instant. Let George W. Bush apologize to the Chinese in a spirit of such spectacularly self-abasing contrition that Beijing will be left, like Daffy Duck, in a state of dazed perplexity, with its bill spinning...
...little older and developed some dangerous habits - like reading. I learned to walk around with the book covers hidden, so the sci-fi titles looked like schoolbooks. I would still get my ass kicked occasionally, no matter how careful I was. It would happen in the schoolyard, on a corner, or in somebody's backyard - before I knew it I was on the ground with some stringy delinquent straddling me, pounding his fists into my stomach...
...TELL HIM NOT TO STOP While most of us have suffered the mindless wrath of a schoolyard bully, a study to be released in the journal Psychological Bulletin indicates teasing can be constructive. According to Professor Dacher Keltner of the University of California, Berkeley, teasing is a form of playful provocation. Most kids do it to show affection and learn social rules. By middle school two-thirds of teasing is done to build friendships...