Word: urchin
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...miracles, Thy deliverances and Thy wonders." On sidewalks and playgrounds, children are still playing with their dredel, the four-sided tops marked with the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, he and pe-first letters of the words ness gadol haya po (a great miracle happened here). Said one urchin this week to an onlooking grownup: "In other countries, the last letter on the dredel is shin for shama (there). Aren't we lucky to be here-in a place where miracles really happen...
...years ago, in the spring. On the last day of sports, a promising freshman thwarted Miss Clarke's expectations as a gym teacher. This budding young athlete, overjoyed at finishing her requirement, flung away her bow, broke six arrows, shot the remainder in the direction of a nearby Cambridge urchin, and ran gleefully off the Quad, screaming, "I'm never going to do anything athletic again--EVER...
...hero of the film--if it has a hero--is a little street urchin, Pedro, whose fault is to ally himself with an equally miserable delinquent, Jaibo, who becomes his personal devil. "Born but to die, and living but to err," Pedro is a picture of the frustrated potentiality which is typical of the characters in the movie. When he wants to become a "good boy," his mother throws him out into the street; when he stops Jaibo from beating a friend over the head, the friend is already dead. When he gets a job, Jaibo causes him to lose...
Comics & Westerns. TV's swarming children's shows are designed to ensnare the growing urchin almost from the moment his infant eyes begin to focus. One of the best shows is reserved for the very youngest: NBC's Ding Dong School, featuring Dr. Frances Horwich and making life easier for mothers and their pre-school young. From here, the moppets are expected to progress by easy stages through Du Mont's Magic Cottage, ABC's Smilin' Ed's Gang to NBC's Pinky Lee Show and the bedlam of Howdy Doody...
...ably edited by Stanley Geist, a young American critic and writer living in Paris, offers the richer literary experience. The selections range from a Stendhal love story, as intricate as a Japanese tea ceremony, to a fragment of Swiftian satire by Baudelaire on the suicide of a Parisian street urchin. In between, Balzac, Zola and Guy de Maupas sant lash at the favorite whipping boy of French letters, the French middle class. Best yarns in the book are stories of simple nobodies by Gustave Flaubert and Joris-Karl Huysmans...