Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lepers. You knew the odds were you would get leprosy and become a burden to the nuns." At 41, Conway does not know where he is heading. He is troubled by the spreading middle-aged need to know, at least, where he has been. Yet his turning back to boyhood memories of India-and his personal trip out East during a long leave from his business-do not seem to be triggered by any Blimpish nostalgia for the good old days. In recollection, his early existence as the only son of the British adviser to a maharaja...
Powerful Friend. Amini's replacement is the Shah's boyhood buddy, Assadollah Alam, 43, a frequent fixture of Teheran governments, and known for his willingness to carry out the monarch's orders. Educated at a British school in Iran, Alam was Minister of the Interior at 29, early displayed what an American acquaintance describes as a combination of native toughness and Y.M.C.A. dedication...
Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Painter Thomas Hart Benton talks to Host John Ciardi about his Missouri boyhood...
George, by Emlyn Williams. The playwright warmly recaptures his Welsh boyhood in an autobiography that makes writing seem like singing...
...that Shade's wife blocked every mention of Zembla out of personal pique, and sets out to fill in the story Shade left out. Leaping with no excuse at all from inoffensive phrases in the poem, Kinbote plunges into lengthy accounts of the Zemblan king's idyllic boyhood, his pederastic youth, his glorious escape during the revolution, and the academic education that allowed the incognito expatriate to land a lecturing job at Appalachia University in New Wye, U.S.A...