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Samurai now propounds its moral: that a headstrong man is of no use to his nation unless he is tamed by virtue. While regiments of armed men scour the hills for Toshiro, a deceptively jolly priest (Kuroemon Onoe) and a frightened girl (Kaoru Yachigusa) ensnare him with kindness. Brought home, Toshiro is trussed up like a maniac and suspended from a tall tree. Each morning and evening the priest inquires if his spirit is broken, and Toshiro answers with howling curses. The girl frees the prisoner, but the wily priest traps Toshiro again, this time locks him in a tower...
Otherwise it was a serious thing. The usual milling crowds along Fraternity Row after the game had gone inside for some expensive warmth, and those who were headstrong enough to attempt the icy trip back to Cambridge Saturday night found that it took closer to six hours than three...
Perhaps the most surprising thing about them is that most of them read very much like the works of a 13-year-old-precocious, well-behaved and well-read beyond his years but a teen-ager nonetheless. Dedicated Carrollians will find few clues of the greatness to come. The Headstrong Man who . . . stood on high Upon a lofty wall; And every one who passed him by, Called out "I fear you'll fall...
might be a preview of Humpty Dumpty or that even greater exponent of waywardness, Father William. But where Carroll's Humpty crashed to his fate in magnificent indifference and Father William went right on standing on his head, the Headstrong Man is easily brought to earth with a thrown handful of sand and a thoroughly sententious Victorian moral...
...headstrong men will stand like me, Nor yield to good advice, All that they can expect will be, To get sand in their eyes...