Word: boyhoods
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...story concerns the pitiful boyhood and youth of Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor is a pen name) in a wet, ruined, pious and oppressed Cork slum. Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings at school, disgrace in his first wretched jobs, and the horror of a miserly, sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle...
...Side. The first miracle involves his own nature. He lived in dreams, and as a man of 58 he still knows the boyhood truth that all children are slightly daft and that imaginative children are plain off their rocker. In the midst of this Cork slum, screaming with malice, he lived among "Invisible Presences"-imaginary young aristocrats at British public schools about whom he read in penny weeklies of the sort that excited the wrath of Etonian George Orwell. Through these stories, barefoot Mick was initiated into the code of the young English gentleman. Naturally it got him into...
...would have been unfortunate had this been otherwise, for by temperament Amon Carter was out of the Old West himself. His collecting began one day in 1928 when a Manhattan art dealer showed him six watercolors and an oil by Russell that reminded Carter of the Texas of his boyhood. Though he was not yet rich, he promptly wrote a $7,500 note, paid it in installments over the next two years...
Lawrence's father, a railroad cook, suddenly disappeared one day when his son was only seven, but his mother was able both to support the boy and let him develop his budding talent. "Most kids,'' says Lawrence of his boyhood, "draw and paint and write poetry - I simply never stopped." In Harlem he spent hours making actors' masks and tiny stage sets, and he began working with the Negro artist Charles Alston. Like many of his generation, he was able to stick to his painting by getting on the Federal Art Project during the Depression...
Great Compromiser. Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn decided way back in boyhood that he was going to be Speaker of the House some day. and he early set about making his dream come true. He got elected to Congress in 1912, at 30, after serving six years in the Texas state legislature. He became House Speaker in 1940, has held that post ever since except for the two intervals. 1947-48 and 1953-54, when the Republicans had a majority in the House. By virtue of his early start, plus sheer longevity, Rayburn has established two records that, apart from his other...