Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prolific writer of adventure stories, Author Harris knows his way around a war and, in particular, the chaotic landscape of a routed army. His military men are simple enough to recall George Henty, the turn-of-the-century bard of boyhood. But Harris is so skillful that he keeps the suspense mounting in the best of two action worlds: the battlefield and the law courts...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Trilogy: The American Boy," three short films that capture the precarious moments of youth entering manhood. Skaterdater, an 18-minute Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winner, careens along on a skateboard; The River Boy and Reflections move the viewer from a Louisiana bayou boyhood to life in New York City...
...After a boyhood surrounded by his parents' Boston friends and graduation from Harvard College in 1928, Howe turned at first to a different world, that of film making. He joined Paramount Pictures as a second assistant director and worked on pictures with Jimmy Durante and Fred Allen. Soon, however, Howe was back in Cambridge at the Law School...
...smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth date and wound up listing eight in the year 1911. They learned that his boyhood nickname was "Sparky," then gave three different reasons for the origin of the name...
...Alvarez hopes they are there, awaiting only the arrival of his spark chamber to be found. "After a boyhood spent watching his father's workers erecting a beautiful and complex series of chambers and passages in the Great Pyramid," he asks, "would Chephren be content to erect a solid and uninteresting pile of limestone blocks as his own pyramid...