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Unit 1 Trust and Character
Text A Do You Like It Here?
(The story was published in 1939)
Words and phrases expected
of students to understand
phooey: int.
(informal): used to express disgust or contempt
eyeshade: a visor worn on heard for
protection against glare
en suite: adj.
adv. in or as a part of a set
make
rounds of: to go from place to place (for
inspection)
bawl out (at sb)
swing around: turn around (as if on a
hinge or pivot)
torture tactics:
proceed: go on
halt: stop or pause
throw
in: to insert or introduce into the course of
something
gratuitously
:
free
of charge; (unnecessarily, without apparent
reason)
certified public accountant
(CPA)
peripatetic: walking or
travelling about
on account of: because
of, for the sake of
imposing: very
impressive
in some small measure
abiding: lasting for a long time,
enduring
institute (a search)
(turn)yellow: (slang) cowardly
givesb one’s word of honor
:
solemn promise, a
verbal commitment
agreeing to
do or not to do
sth. in the future
Preparatory Work
1.
John O’Hara
(1905
-1970),
a keen observer
of social status and class differences,
and wrote frequently about the socially
ambitious. His father died at that time,
leaving him unable to afford Yale, the
college of his choice. By all accounts, this
disappointment affected O'Hara deeply
for the rest of his life and served to hone
the keen sense of social awareness that
characterizes his work. He worked as a
reporter for various newspapers. He
garnered much critical acclaim for his short
stories, more than 200 of which,
beginning in 1928, appeared in
The New
Yorker
.
In 1934, O'Hara
published his first novel,
Appointment
in Samarra
, which was
acclaimed on publication. This is the
O'Hara novel that is most consistently
praised by critics. Ernest Hemingway
wrote:
who knows exactly what he is
writing about and has written it marvelously well,
read
Appointment in
Samarra.
the other hand,
writing in the
Atlantic
Monthly
of March 2000, critic Benjamin
Schwarz and writer Christina Schwarz
claimed:
world's scorn for John O'Hara
that the inclusion ... of
Appointment
in Samarra
on
the Modern
Library's list of the 100 best [English-language]
novels of the
twentieth century was
used to ridicule the entire project.
The
epitaph on his tombstone, which he wrote himself,
reads:
else, he told the truth about
his time. He was a professional. He wrote honestly
and well.
self-defensive and
overbearing. Better than anyone else? Not merely
better than
any other writer of fiction
but better than any dramatist, any poet, any
biographer,
any historian? It is an
astonishing claim.
John O'Hara
2.
A
conversational style and dispassionate voice.
3.
Psychological bullying is
often difficult to ignore. Bullies torment their
victims in
many ways. Tormenting them
is not enough, they have to humiliate them and
ridicule
their victims as well. Bullies
use words to destroy their victims, and these
words can
hurt worse than a physical
blow. People often say, “Sticks and stones may
hurt my
bones, but words will never
hurt”. In today’s society,
this phrase
is simply not true.
Words
do
hurt,
and
they
do
destroy
lives.
Psychological
bullying
destroys
the
character of their victim. The bully
makes the victim the center of his abuse. In other
words, the bully takes his or her anger
and frustration out on the victim.
4.
The Phi Beta
Kappa key
is one of this nation's most
distinctive symbols and, in fact,
traces its origins to the era of the
American Revolution. Conceived in 1776 by a group
of talented undergraduates at the
College of William and Mary as an emblem of their
secret
conviction that
created encompassed more of the
nation's finest colleges and universities, its key
became a universally recognized mark of
academic achievement in the liberal arts and
sciences.
KEYS
the third
degree
:
a situation in which
someone tries to find out information by asking
you a lot of questions
eg. If I'm even half an hour late she
gives me the third degree.
I got the
third degree from my dad when I got in last night.
give(someone) the lowdown
on (something)
:
To provide
someone with specific or
comprehensive
details about someone, something, or some
situation.
eg.
Give
me
the
lowdown
on
what
the
boss
is
planning
to
do
about
the
company's
falling
profits.
I'm waiting for my
brother to give me the lowdown on Geoffrey before
I go on a
date with him.
There's been a shakeup in the company's
upper management, but we won't know
how
we're affected until the boss gives us the
lowdown.
West
Point
:
A US military
installation in southeast New York on the western
bank of
the Hudson River north of New
York City. It has been a military post since 1778
and
the seat of the US Military Academy
since 1802.
Second
Form
:
an
English
term
for
an
equivalent
of
the
7
th
or
8
th
grade
in
American
schools. (also see sixth form: the term refers to
the final two years of
secondary
education
in
the
education
system
of
England
and
other
commonwealth
countries)
day
school
:
as
opposed
to
a
boarding
school,
it
is
an
institution
where
children
(or
high-school
age
adolescents)
are
given
educational
instruction
during
the
day,
after
which children return to their homes.
boarding
school
:
a school where some
or all people study and live during the school
year with their fellow students and
possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word
'boarding'
is
used
in
the
sense
of
and
board,
i.e.,
lodging
and
meals.
Many
independent (private) schools in the
Commonwealth of Nations are boarding schools.
Boarding
school
pupils
(a.k.a.
normally
return
home
during
the
school
holidays and, often,
weekends, but in some cultures may spend the
majority of their
childhood and
adolescent life away from their families. In the
United States, boarding
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