Word: boye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boy in the Kentucky hill country, Brady O. Kelley would listen for hours to his father's tales of warring with General Pershing on the Mexican border. He joined the Army at 17, received a battlefield commission during World War II, and rose to captain. But with his sketchy education, further promotion was impossible. He reverted to noncom, now holds the rank of sergeant-major. Still hard and trim at 48, Kelley is in charge of re-enlistments for the Second Division Headquarters, about 20 miles north of Seoul, Korea...
...those nine, three of them are married, five of them are just living with their girl (boy) friends, and one of them just broke up with the guy she was living with. These are the only people I know this side of the parental generation that have dogs in their households. They all got their dogs at the exact same time in their respective love affairs (just after their relationships got settled down...
Besides, I'm an existentialist (gulp!). Each morning I roll out and open the bedroom door and find a big yellow puddle in between me and the bathroom. It is this--not the fondling, not the playing of tricks, not the 'stand up; roll over, boy"--that most frequently causes the vectors of your life and the dog's to intersect. That is to say, that in terms of existential moments you get to know the dog by what it leaves behind...
Churchill speaks with understatement about his grandfather. Winston, he says, "suffered from being put down as Sir Randolph's boy. He had to carve out his own little niche. It wasn't so little." Churchill is certain his own niche also will be carved in politics. He ran for Parliament in 1967, lost narrowly, intends to try again. He, too, sees a certain compatibility between politics and journalism. "An M.P. has to be well informed," he says, "and journalism is one of the best ways of informing oneself." Journalism is also, as Winston Spencer Churchill well knows...
Steiger is talking to a young hobo (Robert Drivas), and before the boy's astonished eyes, the skin pictures come alive and involve him in stories of the world's future and his own death...