Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apprising them of' the arrival of 'Evelyn Waugh, English writer.' The entire small corps of officers, shaven and polished, turned out to greet me each bearing a bouquet." His childhood in Edwardian England he remembers as idyllic, "an even glow of pure happiness." His memories of boyhood are vividly visual, from his nursery wallpaper (a pattern of medieval figures) to the beauties of the countryside and villages, which were rapidly being destroyed by urbanization in "the grim cyclorama of spoliation which surrounded all English experience in this century." He remembers loving the old-fashioned lighting, he even...
Early in life, Ellison developed a passion for music, black and white, classical and jazz. He was fired with ambition by a wonderful integrated assortment of boyhood heroes: jazzmen and scientists, cowboys and Renaissance artists. He read voraciously, thanks to a Negro who tried to integrate the Oklahoma City public library. The city fathers were so shaken that they hastily opened a separate Negro library and stacked it with every book they could lay their hands...
...Hold Your Potatoes." On through the day, Lyndon and Lady Bird moved, almost ritualistically, as in a stately saraband. To the old Johnson homestead they went, to reminisce a while about Lyndon's boyhood and to sit in the porch swing. Later they visited at the ranch of A. W. (Judge) Moursund, Lyndon's old friend and trustee of his financial interests. The President sat slumped in a living-room chair for a while and watched the election returns on television. Then, by helicopter, he and his party flew to Austin's Driskill Hotel, waded into...
...last week came a report of its findings in the Walter Jenkins case. The bureau said it had interviewed more than 500 persons in its crash investigation, undertaken on orders from President Johnson, and had examined the life of the former White House aide from his Texas boyhood right up to the moment he was last arrested in a Washington Y.M.C.A. washroom. But beyond a flat statement that Jenkins had not been "framed" or "entrapped" (as some of Jenkins' most powerful friends continue to insist), the FBI report said little that was not already known (TIME...
...Celestino Marchillo resumes a boyhood pastime-the Spanish custom of car fighting. He takes his stand in the middle of 'he Boulevard Saint-Martin in Paris and shakes his raincoat at the traffic. He is knocked down. "I could have presented the capote when the head passed, as others do, but I wanted to do it honestly, because the bull was honest," Celestino explains...