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...kings in the back row too. She taught remedial reading to kids and remedial living to me. We have two daughters, Esme and Phoebe. I know the rustle of little souls tossing in beds, and I no longer have to press my ear to the wire fence at the schoolyard to hear great dialogues of children who wonder, too, about Geppetto. Besides, I am at the schoolyard all day. Having tried a series of futile desk jobs, I realized I was not built to dwell in modules. The school at which I teach used to be as snobbish and phony...
Surprise of surprises is that, by virtue of its youthful spirits and calculated razzmatazz, Godspell just about succeeds. Set on an empty stage backed by a chain link fence (part schoolyard, part concentration camp, tres modern), God spell manages to overcome its environment--and, to some extent, its genre. The parables and paradoxes which Christ produces--like a magician running through his patter--are really just excuses for songs and jokes and snappy impersonations. And so, the father of the prodigal son is made to speak like Jimmy Cagney and when he announces the homecoming celebration somebody shouts...
...traumatic event. I must have seen some before in magazines or books but never in the flesh. I approached one, felt his hair, scratched at his cheek, he hit me in the head with a baseball bat. They found me crumpled in a heap just outside the schoolyard fence...
...Nation of Breast Worshipers?". Sexual Behavior seems almost ashamed of its subject. Most of the articles are by M.D.s and Ph.D.s and so mustily mid-Victorian in style and tone that educated adults will not discover much they did not find out about in schoolyard bull sessions as kids...
...diversionary attacks. Communist raiders occupied a railway station and shelled a munitions factory, a pagoda, the Cambodian navy base on the Mekong and a schoolyard in the city itself. On the horizon, the glow of flames could be seen above the town of Kompong Kantuot, 15 miles from the capital but well within its so-called "defense perimeter...