Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pointed out that experiences during the war with students of below average age who came to College brought no observable ill effects, but he emphasized his doubt of a change in one of the "basic assumptions about American education" that the "best place for a schoolboy or girl is school...
Even the mediocre and the downright bad is worth reading, if it can be used with the faculties awake. Ethan Fromm has smashed, dulled, and lulled hundreds of thousands of schoolboy sensibilities for forty years. But for Trilling the book in all its badness, still has something to say about life, for it is the very badness, the lack of sensibility, what he calls "the morality of inertia" which characterizes not only that period, but the majority of people in every period...
...meditation) is the form of Buddhism that is at the same time most appealing and appalling to the Western mind. It claims to be as practical as a Mack truck; it is certainly as anti-intellectual as a hooky-playing schoolboy, and often as humorous as a well-timed pratfall. But it also insists on the disconcerting necessity of saying yes and no at the same time...
Early Life: Born in Newark on April 25, 1906, the son (one of eight children) of an Irish-born immigrant who started out as a laborer, entered New Jersey politics, became a city commissioner and later Newark's director of public safety. As a schoolboy, young Bill helped the family income by delivering milk, making change for trolley riders. Graduating cum laude from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, he won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, got his degree...
...achieved his overnight success without the benefit of a musical education. What he has in abundance, however, is the ability to regard the world with the fractured gaze of a teenager. Reminiscing about his career, he recalls that his mother gave him a banjo when he was still a schoolboy in Los Angeles and remarked, "Here, go make something of yourself.'' But. says Jimmy sadly, "I just couldn't cut the mustard. So then my grandmother, she bought me a uke and said, 'Jimmy, try this thing,' and boy I really cut the mustard!" Three...