Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lindsay uncovers an eternal spring of fresh water by striking his rod against the Empire State Building. Ronald Reagan engages California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown in a series of debates. Reagan, clasping his shawl tight to his shoulders, persists in calling Brown "Senator Douglas" and talking about his boyhood in Illinois...
...500th novel, give or take a dozen or two, Simenon accepts a handicap that only a master could overcome: The Little Saint is a book in which nothing happens. The hero is "a perfectly serene character, in immediate contact with nature and life." All through his boyhood in a poor quarter of Paris he sees pictures in his head; all through his adult life he translates these pictures into paintings. His life is a variety of religious experience-scarcely an exciting subject for fiction. Simenon nevertheless discovers a shimmering excitement in the subject. He sets up two poles of vitality...
...self-immolation, his wife Anne soon explained, expressed "his concern over the great loss of life and human suffering caused by the war in Viet Nam. He was protesting our Government's deep military involvement in this war." The suicide ended a life centered on religion since boyhood. Morrison was born in Erie, Pa.; when he was 13, his widowed mother moved the family to Chautauqua, N.Y., where he became the first youth in the county to win the Boy Scouts' God and Country Award. He was raised a Presbyterian, but gradually became interested in Quaker beliefs, particularly...
Draftsmanship came naturally to the Nuremberg-born goldsmith's son. As a boyhood apprentice, Dürer learned to control the sharp burin as it plowed ornamental-and indelible-lines across the rich metal. At 15, he got his father's permission to study art, and he turned his point to image making. Even before his death in 1528, Dürer's chop M., a reminder of his goldsmith's training, was known across Europe. To show the full range of his accomplishment, 150 drawings by him and his contemporaries have been assembled from...
...this guarded memoir, dapper, frosty old Lawyer Dean Acheson recalls the great ones he has known and paints in muted, modest tones his career until the time he joined the State Department in 1941. He recalls a comfortably idyllic New England boyhood (his English-born father was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut), his years as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, his practice with a Washington law firm. It is all consistently respectable and, alas, consistently unrevealing -except for one rewarding chapter on Under Secretary of the Treasury Acheson's squabble with F.D.R. The President's freewheeling...