Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summers at the Beach. Bill was born to Worthington and Marion Margery Scranton on July 19, 1917, in their beach home in Madison, Conn. He spent most of his boyhood summers there, overcoming an asthmatic condition by constant exercise in the sun. With his three older sisters,* he enjoyed a huge, century-old house at 300 Monroe Avenue in Scranton, later moved into a great stone mansion atop a hill in suburban Dalton, complete with indoor swimming pool. Father Scranton tended to business and did right well: he and his partners sold the gas and water firm for $18 million...
...affluent lawyer, Barnett clung to his boyhood ambition to achieve public office. In 1951, without bothering to serve a political apprenticeship, he plunged in as a candidate in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. He lost, tried and lost again in 1955, finally won in 1959. The secret of his success: as the most outspoken racist among all Mississippi's segregationist politicians, Barnett won the support of the state's powerful white Citizens' Councils. Most Mississippi politicians refer to Negroes as "niggras" in public speeches; Barnett unfailingly called them "niggers," drew cheers, chuckles -and votes-from rural audiences...
Cummings came by his combined role as archromantic and Peck's bad boy of modern poetry naturally enough. Boyhood in Cambridge and Harvard ('15) gave him a New England intellectual's self-assurance and the Thoreauesque tradition of rebellious individualism. Just as Cummings began writing verse, Ezra Pound and the Imagists had turned old poetic practice upside down. Cummings was quick to follow them in tossing out high-flown poetic rhetoric and shucking off the straitjacket of traditional verse forms. Above all, the Imagist doctrine of quick impact was made for Cummings. Explaining his own techniques...
Angrily he notes his escape (to an English school at age ten) from "the prison of my Indian boyhood . . . [that] strait-jacket of 19th century compensation fantasies" where "tokens of love, honour, courage" masqueraded "as rules instead of exceptions." Even years later, when he and his men are caught and tortured by the Japanese in Malaya, he counsels them, ''Hang on to your lives," wondering as he does so if he should have said "courage," then swiftly dismissing the thought with a snappish phrase: "But that is all fable." Stuffed Symbols. Despite this, Conway finds himself teased, almost...
...Bosch. If Cancer was an old world debauch, Capricorn is a kind of New World Sinphony. an account of Author Miller's coming of age in New York City (1900-23). Incredibly garrulous and grotesque, the book is a disordered Horatio Alger story: escape from a poor Brooklyn boyhood, as it might have been written by Harpo Marx and Hieronymus Bosch working together. Wild philosophic maunderings sprinkled with a self-taught man's self-conscious display of highfalutin' acquaintances (Bergson, Nietzsche. Whitman) proclaim Miller's belief in the sovereignty of the heart over the mind...