Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert's worried father sent "him west for his health, engaging Teacher Smith as his companion. It was the boy's first look at New Mexico, and he fell in love with it. Teacher and pupil talked like philosophers, and dressed like prospectors; Robert added to his crystal specimens, and learned to sit a horse...
...long as schoolboy conversations were intellectual Robert got along fine, a classmate remembers, but surrounded by small talk, Robert sat morose, "exactly as though he weren't getting enough to eat or drink." The boy told his favorite English teacher, Herbert Winslow Smith: "I'm the loneliest man in the world...
...Princeton, Mrs. Oppenheimer has had a greenhouse installed at the Institute's 18-room Olden Manor. But she has abandoned her own studies to run the house, and look after the children (a boy, Peter, 7, and a girl, "Toni," going-on-4). Oppie, who has a theory about everything, has formulated one for raising children: "Just pour in the love and it will come...
...South Carolina cotton picker, Larry Winters worked his way through Howard University as a delivery boy, elevator operator and porter. Three days before graduation, he got his first break: the role of Emperor of Haiti in a production of Negro Composer Clarence Cameron White's opera Quango. He made a hit in it, but not his fortune. Soon afterwards he took a job as a singing waiter in Manhattan's Belmont Plaza Hotel...
...Lewis described him as "tall, slim, straight as a boy, though grey-haired. His face we thought ugly: I am not sure that the word 'monkey' has not been murmured in this context. But the moment he spoke it became, as was also said, like the face of an angel ... a spirit burning with intelligence and charity...