Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, WITH HARRY REASONER (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Rose Kennedy conducts a tour of the late President's boyhood home in Brookline, Mass., on "JFK-The Childhood Years: A Memoir for Television by His Mother...
...Bearden, a heavyset, light-skinned Negro, what was missing was an adequate portrayal of the worlds he had grown up in and knew best-the farm life of the sharecropper in the South, where he was born, the tense, raucous life of his boyhood in Harlem, where his father was a city health inspector, and Boston, where as a youth Bearden played pro baseball in the Negro leagues. The 15 works on display at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom gallery are meant to fill in the gap. They range from scenes outside sharecroppers' shanties (see color opposite) and springtime...
Alumni Club. Teledyne's chairman insists that his company's growth-sales have increased an average 124% a year -has been "strictly along conservative lines," But such things are relative. Singleton spent his boyhood moonily reading about such captains of industry as J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller. After three years at the U.S. Naval Academy, he transferred to M.I.T., where he eventually earned a doctorate in electrical engineering. In 1950, he got a job working on rocket-fire control at Hughes Aircraft-which Singleton now calls "Howard Hughes College" in recognition of the success achieved...
Jewish Blues. In other short stories, Ronald Sukenick coolly chronicles a tale about some free-floating hippies flying "an impossible, ultimate kite" over the East River; and Philip Roth incants a Newark ghetto boyhood in The Jewish Blues. ("The goyim pretended to be something special, while we were actually their moral superiors. And what made us superior was precisely the hatred and the disrespect they lavished so willingly upon...
...volumes. His talents were diverse, and almost inexhaustible. In 1927 he completed a labor of love, his American Songbag, a treasury of the nation's folk songs. His first novel, Remembrance Rock, was finished in 1948. At 74, he published Always the Young Strangers, a memoir of his boyhood. Always, however, his first love was verse and song. As a preface to 1928's Good Morning, America, Sandburg listed 38 tentative definitions of poetry. Among them: "Poetry is a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog...