Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deserving Poor. The South Boston of McCormack's boyhood was a neighborhood of shabby respectability. South Boston's citizens, almost all Irish American, were poor but industrious (the "deserving poor"). Drawn together by their church (at one time, South Boston claimed to produce more nuns and priests per capita than any other U.S. community) and by the bitter prejudice of Boston's entrenched Yankees, the Irish were fanatically loyal to one another. A local saying has it that "if God came down to South Boston and ran for office against a fellow who was born...
...with a Stalinesque mustache who successively won fame as a foreign correspondent, novelist (Savage Prodigal) and film writer (The Volga Boatman) but put the best of his talent into Ghitza and The Story of the Gypsies, sentimental chronicles of the gypsy life he had first observed during an impressionable boyhood in Rumania; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...borscht circuit." wrote his first successful play (Once in a Lifetime) at 26 with longtime collaborator George S. Kaufman, went on to turn out a long series of hits including The Man Who Came to Dinner and Lady in the Dark, out of remembered horror of his boyhood poverty disposed of his immense earnings in a manner so lavish that it was said to illustrate "what God would do if he had money," and finally cemented his claim to a place in theatrical legend with Act One, the disarmingly candid autobiography of a man who described his life...
...ONLY CHILD, by Frank O'Connor. An account of the author's boyhood in a wet, ruined, pious, oppressed Cork slum. The heroine is O'Connor's mother; her son writes of her with eloquence and wonder...
...pigs and took in boarders to see him through high school, and he went on to the university while holding down a minor job as an accountant. After two years, he had to quit school because of ill health and lack of money. Returning to Pampanga, he joined a boyhood friend, handsome Rogelio de la Rosa, in writing, producing and acting in Tagalog operettas patterned after the classic Spanish zarzuelas. Macapagal married his friend's sister (she died during the war, and he is now married to handsome Evangelina Macaraeg, a physician). As for De la Rosa, he went...