Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step in life you Freshmen are now taking," a College dean told his audience, "is from boyhood into manhood." It was essentially the same speech Harvard freshmen had heard for years and would continue to hear for years to come, but to several hundred young men gathered in Phillips Brooks House September 27, 1907, it was an immensely serious speech...
...Drink & Be Merry. Jesse Unruh has come a long way from his boyhood on a cotton farm in Swenson, Texas (pop. 98). The Unruhs were hard-working sharecroppers. Nettie Unruh cut her three sons' hair all through high school, and when it came to buying clothes, all that the boys could expect were pants and shirts. ("Underwear," explains Jesse Unruh, "was just something to waste money on.") As a teenager, Jesse made his way to Los Angeles, got a job as a riveter at Douglas Aircraft. During World War II he served in Texas and the Aleutians...
...journalist, can Jang out a newspaper column for years in an average daily elapsed time of eleven minutes (so Newspaperman Ruark has coasted; one suspects the creative memory is an aid in recounting the feat). Or he can put together two volumes of yarns about his boyhood and overgrown-boyhood that have the virtues, and all of the faults, of good, whiskyish, late-evening reminiscence...
...freighter, and about the Old Man's tactful peace overtures to a Boy who has run away and who wishes his pride allowed him to run home again. It may occur to the reader that what the author has preserved is not merely leaf pressings of his own boyhood. The time has passed already, for instance, when most boys in the U.S. dreamed for three months a year of the opening of quail season. For that matter, the time has passed already when an African safari was something more than a long bus ride. It is well known that...
...Only Child, by Frank O'Connor. Born in a Cork slum, the author writes with cheerful clarity of his pitiable boyhood and his fey, gallant mother...