Passing through the Atlanta airport one morning,I caught oneof those trains that take travellers from the main terminal to theirboarding gates.Free,sterile and impersonal,the trains run backand forth all day long.Not ...Passing through the Atlanta airport one morning,I caught oneof those trains that take travellers from the main terminal to theirboarding gates.Free,sterile and impersonal,the trains run backand forth all day long.Not many people consider them fun,but onthis Saturday I heard laughter.展开更多
“Are you too stupid to do anything right?”These words—said by a woman to a little boy who was evidently her son—were spoken because he had walked away from her.Andthey were said at a volume high enough that all th...“Are you too stupid to do anything right?”These words—said by a woman to a little boy who was evidently her son—were spoken because he had walked away from her.Andthey were said at a volume high enough that all the strangersin the vicinity could hear.Chastised,the boy returned quiet-ly to the woman’s side,his eyes downcast.Not a big moment,perhaps.Yet small moments some-展开更多
文摘Passing through the Atlanta airport one morning,I caught oneof those trains that take travellers from the main terminal to theirboarding gates.Free,sterile and impersonal,the trains run backand forth all day long.Not many people consider them fun,but onthis Saturday I heard laughter.
文摘“Are you too stupid to do anything right?”These words—said by a woman to a little boy who was evidently her son—were spoken because he had walked away from her.Andthey were said at a volume high enough that all the strangersin the vicinity could hear.Chastised,the boy returned quiet-ly to the woman’s side,his eyes downcast.Not a big moment,perhaps.Yet small moments some-
