Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belonged to an old, small, much-trodden country, where every field, every path, every ruin had its memories, where :very last corner had its story." It took lim seven more years to get back, but he was back to stay. If his book is "a no to my own boyhood, my own youth, even to my own parents," it is a yes to "the basic experiment with life" that made him a writer. For better or worse, he notes, he remains "impaled on one green corner of the universe...
...rebellious lieutenant governor, Francis Xavier Bellotti. But Bellotti, 41, a scrappy Quincy lawyer with twelve children, ignored his convention defeat, entered the Democratic primary against Chub, scrambled energetically over the state tightening ties with local Democratic organizations -something Peabody had ignored. On the stump, Bellotti boasted of his impoverished boyhood, proudly told Democrats: "My college education, my house, my car, everything that I am and have, came as a result of Democratic-sponsored social legislation...
...Last year he left the Dominican order and in defiance of the church authorities published his arguments in a book called The Priestly State - Marriage or Celibacy? Recalling the early days of solitude in Aix-en-Provence, after having torn himself from the only life that was his since boyhood, he said: "I walked the windswept streets making the unconscious gesture of touching my new suit, feeling for the robe that was no longer there...
...with lakes that the road seems a bridge, and so rich in woods that they spill right up to the road's edge until the turnoff at Eagle River onto U.S. 45. U.S. 460 in Indiana meanders over hills only a spit away from Kentucky to the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, which includes the site of the log cabin where the young Lincoln studied by candlelight, and the grave of his mother, Nancy Hanks. Farther along is the New Harmony settlement, a 19th century Utopian experiment that has been memorialized by a garden shrine designed by Architect Philip Johnson...
...these poems, written in the last seven years of his life, he lovingly and lingeringly catalogues objects: surf and "the falling of small waters," fields and abandoned farms, vireos, warblers and "the heron's hieratic fishing," the greenhouses and roses of his florist father remembered from his Michigan boyhood. Musical in themselves, these flashing descriptions are presented almost brusquely, so that they may seem at first to be curiously opaque and lacking in resonance...