Cruelty...

I just saw a DVD of Blackboard Jungle with Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier.

It is a remarkable film of growing up on the mean streets.

We talk of "man's inhumanity to man."

Kids can be as cruel as their elders.

"Four-eyes," "Shaky Joe" ( kid with a tremor), "Shrimp," "Jap" for a sneaky kid (in the old parlance) --- and so much more.

"The child is the father of the man" --- is that the good news or the bad?

Ben