Word: boyhoods
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Philadelphian Kirk is a late but capable comer to the diplomatic service. Lured to the sea by boyhood canoeing on the Delaware River, he graduated from Annapolis in 1909, became a gunnery expert. By World War II, he had his rear admiral's flag, led invasion task forces at Sicily and Normandy, instituted the custom of broadcasting battle action to seamen below decks. His last professional contact with China was in 1911-14 as a gunboat ensign on the Asiatic Station during the Sun Yat-sen revolution. His last prolonged contact with the Kennedys was in 1939-1940, when...
...dedication ceremonies for the $3.000.000 Eisenhower Presidential Library in his boyhood home of Abilene, Kans., Dwight Eisenhower had some blunt, plainsman's thoughts for Americans to ponder. Standing before the two-level building, which eventually will hold 20 million documents from his two terms in the White House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded...
...eared formula for Irish comic fiction: to one seedy slice of life from an impoverished Irish boyhood add one outrageous old character who swears a blue streak, acts like a freak, and is lovable as all get out. Stir in plenty of Irish whisky, a peck of troubles, assorted downtrodden womenfolk, a hard-drinking priest, plenty of disputatious talk about the church...
...boyhood spent in Oregon led McCord into painting because "painting water-colors somehow goes with the tude of fly-flshing." Since then, he been an avid painter and an enthusi fisherman...
...Griffin. It is a difficult role, for Christy's character does not so much develop as burst from revelation to revelation. Ingenuous cowardice erupts into lyric bragging, which suddenly becomes an adolescent protestation of love. Christy's final and most important change from bondage to freedom, from boyhood to manhood, is as unexpected as the rest. Griffin plays the part with extraordinary exuberance and intelligence; he achieves the clarity necessary if the play is to make sense. Occasionally, as in the love scene and in the final scene of the play, his exuberance becomes the rare power that makes...