Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Mother. Krishnamurti, then 14, seems to have been merely an amiable, moderately well-behaved schoolboy of the Indian middle class. He was a little slow in school, and for his slowness he was often caned, but he had a wonderful "aura"-the multicolored emanation that Theosophists saw gleaming about each other. Krishnamurti displayed big black eyes and a set of irrefutable (because unstatable) notions of a vaguely ethical tinge; e.g., "Truth being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized." He lived on vegetables, and on the front page, and the wonder is that he managed...
...TIME OF GREENBLOOM, by Gabriel Fielding. A too-sensitive English schoolboy goes astray on the devious paths of life and love, comes to believe that the game is not worth the candle, but is brought back to himself through the influence of Horab Greenbloom, one of the flashiest intellectual priests of the life-to-the-hilt school in recent fiction history...
...wealthy mining engineer and landowner, Gaillard was a precociously brilliant schoolboy, showed an early devotion to economics. After energetic wartime service in the resistance, he attended various international conferences as a financial expert, was elected to the Assembly (at 27) as a Radical Socialist in 1946, became a junior minister the next year. As Secretary of State to the Premier in 1953, he launched le plan Gaillard, a five-year program for atomic energy development. But he was little known to the French public until last summer, when as Finance Minister in the Bourges-Maunoury government, he courageously devalued...
...Abilene last week enthusiasm ran so high that the Eagles played as if they didn't dare lose. They never stopped running until they had whipped Big Spring 32 to 0. With impressive ease they put themselves on top of the toughest schoolboy football league in the U.S.; their string of 44 straight victories makes them the Oklahoma of high schools...
Earlier, freshman Jed Fitzgerald had thoroughly trounced Yale's heralded Tom Carroll, schoolboy 880 record-holder. He opened up a commanding 100-yard lead midway through the race and coasted to win by the same margin...