Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nelson Algren's Boyhood...
Boring's interest in psychology followed a general boyhood interest in science. He lived with a family of many relatives over his great-grandfather's drug store in Philadelphia. "There were lots of us in those three floors. I learned to read at home, since I went to school quite late. And I had very few friends my age; I played alone...
...best thing in the book is naturally about Chicago - and about his own boyhood, when "somebody was always excommunicating" him. It is essentially about the tough streets where he once sold papers, and the bitter time when a child discovers the ironies involved in the goodness of God and the cruelty of man. But Algren spoils it from evident fear of falling into false sentimentality. He falls right into another kind of falsity. Says the boy Algren: "I want to see the face of Gawd." Facetious spelling gets the adult Algren off no theological or esthetic hook and simply suggests...
...torment seems to be his own. Bergman is the son of an austere Evangelical Lutheran parson who molded the boy with icy constraint and puritanical tyranny, and of a mother who was remote from both son and husband. To Bergman his parents were "sealed in iron caskets." This boyhood gave him the permeating motifs for his work: "God and the Devil, Life and Death, the drama of the couple and the tragic solitude of beings." In Winter Light, the hoarfrost of allegory gleams more icily than ever before...
...eighteen that William decided to pursue a career in painting. Vainly he had striven to escape the lure of the brush during a restless summer in Germany. He yearned for a decisive test of his mettle. Since early boyhood he had painted, and his skill and interest had long been recognized...