Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easier to see: mothers-in-law, problem children, alcohol, a taste for money (as someone told me, "The Carters are not a bit worse than the Kennedys; the Kennedys just have more cashmere sweaters"). No, the deep shifts sensed and regretted by natives are attributable not to one local boy but to history. The outspoken Carters may have speeded ventilation; but the bleeding holes in the oldest foundations are the same holes rammed everywhere in America by swelling population, the spread of wealth, racial change, and an active central Government. Round every hole, the citizens of Plains see what...
...child's fear. But sometimes, especially if a youngster is subjected to severe parental abuse, perhaps beatings, the child can turn to potentially damaging reveries, including ones about changes in sexual role. In effect, the child says: "Maybe Daddy would really love me if I were a boy instead of a girl," or vice versa. Unless they are resolved, explains Bloch, such conflicts may be the first step toward homosexuality...
...larger power. His father, a nobleman and Polish patriot, was convicted of political crimes by the occupying Russian authorities and sent into exile, along with wife and child. In arctic solitude, young Conrad watched his mother and then his father dying slowly of consumption. An orphan at eleven, the boy felt the full force of his father's "exalted and dreamy temperament" and never forgot what it brought: misery, ruin and death. The lesson later pervaded his fiction. Men with no illusions are base, but those who have them are destroyers...
...Alabama boy who has all the courtliness, warmth, and sensibility of the Old South and the fresh progressiveness of the New South," Thomson added...
...stir up wars and skillfully avoid them, or win them, and he can play with the economy to make us feel more prosperous than we ever will be. But the Georgian is no longer the man who can walk up to a three-year-old, smile a good-old-boy-two-sets-of-teeth-smile and say, "Why shucks, I don't even rightly recollect as I know where Washington is." And he can kiss the black, poor, urban vote goodbye, without getting many Tax-Revolt, solid Republicans in the suburbs votes...