Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rhyne's chances of following after Lawyer Tillett were dim indeed: his family simply did not have enough money to send him to college. After his farm years of milking, plowing, picking cotton, bushy-haired Charlie Rhyne got a city job as a Western Union messenger boy in Charlotte. With $300 in savings in hand, he enrolled at Duke University. He had an early-morning newspaper route; he sold Bibles in West Virginia during the summer, and still ran out of money in his sophomore year and had to quit school. He hitchhiked West, dug storm sewers in Denver...
...film in the best boy-meets-girl, boy-overcomes-almost-insuperable-obstacles, boy-gets-girl tradition, it is certainly enjoyable. The necessity of making a movie conform to American public morality--which ruined Graham Greene's The Quiet American when translating it onto film--does not have the same effect on The Brothers. It is a new story, but not a bad one. All the parts of this new tale are acted better than competently--especially by Cobb and Miss Schell, and although the title would perhaps be more accurate as True Love Triumphs in Old Russia, the movie should...
...painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once a week and his doctor perhaps twice a year...
...vision fogs, the boy cultivates a world of offbeat characters where the ironies of life are less barbed and the humor less sardonic. There is a tramp who lives on baked potatoes and slugs of brandy. There is an alcoholic street singer, a kind of turn-of-the-century Bing Crosby ("Boo-boobooboo-boo"). And there is Grandma from Sweden who chews pipe dottle and comes to Denmark fully intending to die, but lives on to plague and embarrass the boy's mother with her unhousebroken back-country habits...
Gold Thread. When his mother finally takes the boy to a Copenhagen specialist it is too late to do more than prolong his eyesight for a few years, but back home in the town concert hall it is still early enough for the boy to find an exciting new sense of vocation. A violin note spins out over the hushed audience, "thin and glittering like a gold thread in sunlight . . . the echo felt like a kind of weeping in one's chest. A weeping that could not be wept." At novel's end, with a profound sense...