Word: copybooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost inarticulate about his deepest feelings. Candid beyond discretion, Sonia seems to be carrying a guttering torch for a phone nemesis named Leon who calls at all hours, preferably 3 a.m. After some murky psychologizing about the schizophrenic difficulties of living and working together, the pair split and, copybook fashion, kiss and make...
...occasionally playing pranks, like painting a pigeon's wings with the red. white and blue tricolor and then setting it loose, provoking a vain fusillade from German guards). He sustained himself too by a great feat of memory-writing The Mediterranean, filling up and mailing out one schoolboy copybook after another. "I had to believe that history, destiny, was written at a much more profound level," recalls Braudel of those years. "So it was that I consciously set forth in search of a historical language in order to present unchanging, or at least very slowly changing conditions which stubbornly...
Throughout the long rows small, diligent heads were bent over the copybooks on the desks, and over the sounds of busy, scratching pens only a clock ticked...In the back, however, in the row closest to the windows, set a pale, this youth whose dark, brooding eyes turned not to his copybook but to the green, budding world beyond the window...
...Puritans were Calvinists, and they brought the work ethic to America. They punished idleness as a serious misdemeanor. They filled their children's ears with copybook maxims about the devil finding work for idle hands and God helping those who help themselves. Successive waves of immigrants took those lessons to heart, and they aimed for what they thought was the ultimate success open to them -middle-class status. They almost deified Horatio Alger's fictional heroes, like Ragged Dick, who struggled up to the middle class by dint of hard work...
...Spanish Civil War. "Orwell, by reason of the quality that permits us to say of him that he was a virtuous man, is a figure in our lives," Trilling writes. He says that Orwell "seems to be serving not some dashing daimon but the plain, solid Gods of the Copybook Maxims. He is not a genius--what a relief! What an encouragement. For he communicates to us the sense that what he has done, any one of us could...