Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...share of temper tantrums-and racquets-along the way. Still, compared with Nastase's death threat against a New York Times reporter and Connors' deliberate snub of the parade of past champions, McEnroe's behavior was no more reprehensible than that of a high-spirited schoolboy-which he is. McEnroe's remarkable odyssey came to an end in his semifinal match with Connors. Betrayed by his serve-always the last phase of a youngster's game to come under control -McEnroe succumbed in four sets...
Tomfoolery is a schoolboy's idea of manic anarchy; he cannot destroy the foundations of dominance without destroying himself, so he resorts to the mockery of mimicry. What he doesn't realize is that his mimicry deprives him of identity (just as the best parody is only barely distinguishable from its victim), and he, the mocking schoolboy, becomes the personification of his school. Similarly, denatured anarchy can exist in the King's Court, the eunuch in the harem, and the Harlequin can blend into the royal robes. Christ, the ultimate fool in his renunciation of worldly existence, can exist...
...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...
Until, that is, they discovered his intention of attending Harvard. Only nobody told the Yankees, who went right ahead and drafted the Massachusetts schoolboy flame-thrower the same year that Mickey Rivers and Ed Figueroa first donned pinstripes...
...25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign. It was as if the mother tongue of Shakespeare and Milton had lapsed into baby talk. Betjeman's quatrains palpitated with cliches and such treacly rhymes as people/steeple, dutiful/beautiful and blue/true. Stanza 4 particularly captured the poem's schoolboy earnestness...