Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reveal a powder-blue ensemble-silk sports shirt buttoned at the neck, double-breasted blue zoot suit. The best and saddest scene-stealer of the group was sloe-eyed Prince Mashhur, the crippled, brown-faced, 3½-year-old favorite son of the King, who had brought the boy to seek expert American medical attention at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital (see MEDICINE...
...future National Guard recruits to undergo six months of full-time military training-a plan that the politically influential Guard opposes as a hindrance to enlistments. "You know," he volunteered, "the thing was really sort of a scandal during the Korean war. It was a draft-dodging business. A boy of 17 to 18½ could enlist in the National Guard and not be drafted and sent to Korea and fight...
Until last week, if asked for information about the Hill House School of London, only a handful of Britons would have been able to reply with anything more than a blank stare. Young (five years), small (102 boys), and inexpensive ($280), the school, in middle-class Chelsea, caters to the sons of professional and business men, with not a noble lord among them. But one day last week a black Ford pulled up to the door, and out jumped a chubby-cheeked new boy of eight. For England, this was big news indeed: His Royal Highness Prince Charles Philip Arthur...
...Bernstein knows that "in the next year or two. when I grow up, I'll have to decide what to do. It used to come so easy. Now I get tired." The wonder boy has become the man who wonders...
...kept on writing. An Outcast of the Islands was a tale of progressive moral ruin, told with a ruthless Dostoevskian logic up to a point of no return. Lord Jim, which read like a boy's story, was actually a painful parable of the penance a man must do to reclaim honor lost in one moment of cowardice. In Heart of Darkness, the most enigmatic of his novels, Conrad used as background his dismal experiences in the Belgian Congo. Its protagonist Kurtz is a portrait of a man whose pure will-to-power has squandered itself hopelessly. In the epigraph...