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...ticket-scalping scheme. And when a chance meeting gets Armpit mixed up with a teen pop superstar (the tickets were for her concert), things get complicated. It's a fairy-tale setup, but Sachar gives his characters real emotions and real problems, and the result is a surprisingly wise book that never cloys or condescends...
...have done it fast enough for our impatient tastes, he eventually got the university on the right side of the divestiture issue (embracing the “Sullivan principles”), undergraduate education (rolling out the Core Curriculum), and affirmative action (on which he later co-authored a wise and supportive book, “The Shape of the River”). He tripled the endowment, built the Kennedy School, and made Harvard more international than ever, in complexion and outlook. And by cutting such an inoffensive, middle-of-the road profile, he helped encourage a culture of intellectual...
...Collection package brings together (with the usual fabulous extras) three mini-masterpieces: the 1971 Murmur of the Heart, the 1974 Lacombe Lucien and the 1987 Au Revoir les Enfants (below). Sexuality, fascism and racism are the respective issues addressed, but it's the mood that sticks with you: a wise, indulgent longing that is immediately French, indelibly universal...
Marlin Fitzwater, the curmudgeonly and wise press secretary to George Herbert Walker Bush and before that, Ronald Reagan, liked to say there are two kinds of truth: the kind you read in a book - and the kind any fool...
...Sometimes people mistake my stuttering for the hemming and hawing of English aristocrats when they are trying to appear wise,” Shell says, laughing...