She took notes on the happenings of the room, and she always seemed to know everything about the patients. ... Nurse Ratched also gave McMurphy every chance to admit he was wrong to beat the black boy who was taunting George. ... "She led him into the office, stroking his head and saying, 'Poor boy, poor little boy,'" (265). ...
Howard and Buglar "[ran] away by the time they were thirteen years old" (3), the traditional age of manhood in many cultures, the age at which a Jewish boy becomes a Bar Mitzvah and a medieval boy would leave home for an apprenticeship. ... After the choking episode, Sethe notes that Beloved "behaved like a two-year-old" (98). ... They are male instead of female, white instead of black, they have no names, and they perpetrate large evils, raping and beating Sethe. ... Again the inversion is present, male to female, white to black. ... Sethe "heard three notes" from the song that Beloved hums. ...
And so the boy starts out for the far country. ... Because of the famine this boy does not know what to do. ... So now here is this boy unable to feed himself because he lacks the money and is now feeding pigs. And so, on the black background of this boy's sin "down in the pigpen, out of fellowship with his father, having left home on a bad note, our Lord begins to brighten things up. Many would say that this young boy was a sinner, and is going to be saved. ...
The frontline for research and construction was the Los Alamos Laboratory, formerly a boy's ranch school that was purchased by Oppenheimer. ... Seconds after the explosion came first the air blast pressing hard against the people, to be followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained awesome roar that warned of doomsday and made us feel we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved for the Almighty.2 It is amazing to note the speed of which the Americans first created the atomic bomb. ... Meanwhile, Los Alamos was finalizing the Uranium bom...
