Word: boye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispensed autographs cheerfully and without charge but never could fathom their allure), Aaron took the alias of Diefendorfer in an attempt to throw off his pursuers. He registered that way in out-of-the-way havens and avoided the company of his Atlanta Braves teammates. But a small boy with a ball-point pen still found him in a cavern of the stadium. "Are you a Brave?" the boy asked. Aaron was charmed. "Sure am, son," he replied with a great laugh. "May I have your autograph?" "Of course...
Shields develops these concepts in the setting of a potentially dynamic California family, tells his story through the eyes of a stuttering boy intimidated and obsessed by others' mastery of language. It is a fascinating starting point, but the story stagnates...
These moments are welcome in a book that frequently takes itself too seriously, and can throw out platitudes such as "The city boy who hates the city leaves the city to perfect a speech in absolute supremacy of the city...We all choose a calling that's the most radical contradiction of ourselves...
...record buyers. It needs a conductor with fire in the belly like Bernstein; if Billy Martin can be hired by the Yankees five times, can't Lenny come back once? Los Angeles, where the orchestra plays second fiddle to the movies and the Lakers, needs a high-profile glamour boy willing, or indifferent enough, to share power with Fleischmann: Salonen, perhaps, or Rattle...
...peers can become his family, and wilding can be a way to prove his masculinity. "Kids who roam in groups gain a sense of power that they do not have individually," says Elijah Anderson, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Caught in a mob frenzy, each boy believes he is the only one hesitant to go ahead with a destructive act, and will not resist or show remorse out of fear that the others in the group will think him a coward...