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...most American high schools. The school board, the trustees, the administration and the teachers have power. The students do not have power. Student government in high school is generally concerned with pressing issues like when to have the homecoming dance or the senior prom. High school students are seldom involved in the actual administration of their school or their curriculum...
...public it would be impossible to discuss sensitive issues or confidential information, like how much to increase your tuition next year. But this is a false argument. The committee can meet in closed session when it discusses a particular issue that must remain confidential, but that is seldom necessary...
First he explains the mania that provoked him. Like such disparate figures as Molly Bloom and Richard Nixon, Theroux says he has always been lured by the siren song of a train whistle: "I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it." Thus his trip represented a once-in-a-lifetime act of massive self-indulgence, plus the chance to experience firsthand "the trains with the bewitching names: the Orient Express, the North Star, the Trans-Siberian." As an added bonus, the trips threw him together with several novels' worth of offbeat characters...
...Seldom has the environmental establishment been so embarrassed. A recent Los Angeles Times story reported that many major organizations in the movement "have sought to increase their income by investing in the very companies that they criticize most." The stock portfolios of the Sierra Club and the Sierra Club Foundation have included securities of such frequent targets as General Motors, U.S. Steel, Tenneco, Weyerhaeuser Co. (timber) and Exxon. The Environmental Defense Fund also holds Exxon, even though the fund fought a court battle against the Alaska pipeline, in which Exxon owns a 25% interest...
Lacking a human dimension, the spy seldom grows large enough to tell universal truths. Instead, he becomes an extension of the tortured child of Kosinski's indelible first novel, The Painted Bird, and the deracinated hero of his second greatest work, Steps. Like these central characters, Kosinski once fled the hell of war and totalitarianism; like them, he suffered unnamed-and perhaps unnameable-trauma. Cockpit seems to be a refraction of those anguished early years. If it is, then the novel's epigraph need not be from Dostoyevsky but from Auden, whose insight remains the subtext...