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"[first lines] Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did was wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? And you see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed."
"Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is."
"Screws fall out all the time; the world is an imperfect place."
"Hey, how come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up, we'll all get up…it'll be anarchy!'"
"[to Claire] You know how you said before that your parents use you to get back at each other? Wouldn't I be outstanding in that capacity?"
"Yeah, I got a question. Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?"
"They only met once, but it changed their lives forever."
"They were five total strangers, with nothing in common, meeting for the first time. A brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse. Before the day was over, they broke the rules. Bared their souls and touched each other in a way they never dreamed possible."
"Five strangers with nothing in common, except each other."
"Emilio Estevez — Andrew "Andy" Clark"
"Anthony Michael Hall — Brian Ralph Johnson"
"Judd Nelson — John Bender"
"Molly Ringwald — Claire Standish"
"Ally Sheedy — Allison Reynolds"
"Paul Gleason — Vice Principal Richard Vernon"
"John Kapelos — Carl, the Janitor"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.