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...time to think about the cruel experiences I've had. I'm not unique. Others have every reason to be more bitter than I. There are countless people who went to jail and aren't bitter at all, because they can see that their sacrifices were not in vain, and the ideas for which we lived and sacrificed are about to come to fruition. And that removes the bitterness from their hearts...
...reading at the Brattle Theatre, she is far more consistently appealing as a speaker. She convulsed her audience with swift one-liners: "You can't be saved if you don't sin," she explained persuasively. "Jesus died for our sins, I wouldn't want him to have died in vain." Or "Jesse Helms has accused me of single handedly converting American women to lesbianism. How wrong he is. It takes both hands...
Edward comes off as an annoying troubadour with a penchant for spouting verse and a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge about the origins of everyday things. One keeps hoping in vain for the famed English reserve to come into play...
Schine continues in a tradition exemplified by Joyce Carol Oates' Black Water and Auberon Waugh's waspish commentary for the Spectator. All attribute numerous undesirable traits to the young people who populate their work. These unfortunates are uniformly slothful, vain, banal, (place your vice here) revealing that while these authors may have read about and taught young people, they may not actually know any young people...
...professor any hope that they did. The audience asks thinly disguised questions directly from the exam sheet, and more often then not, the professor responds with a neatly packaged answer--dashing the hopes of anyone who bothered to prepare that they haven't spent their time and effort in vain...