Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your story on the fascinating creations of Architect Victor Lundy comes as no surprise to his boyhood friends. Back in the years of our Bronx school days, everyone recognized his exceptional talents...
...Donner has been ill, and he is perhaps a little unbalanced as well. The local graveyards were moved up to high ground when the valley was flooded, and as he stands before the graves of his family, Donner is swept away by memories. In his fevered imagination, his boyhood Unionville exists again. He walks the streets, peers into houses, recognizes old friends and acquaintances. He even visits his father's store, and there an old confusion leaves him helpless to speak his feelings. Like many a boy, he had never been able to bridge the distance between himself...
...Edge of Day, by Laurie Lee. The British poet's unsentimental account of his boyhood in a rural village is rich in common truths uncommonly stated...
...Good Soldier. Like many of Himmlers SS men, Hoess was devoted to his wife and children, loved animals and dreamed of farming as a livelihood. He had a bucolically innocent boyhood in southern Germany. Burning with adolescent patriotism, he saw action in World War I before he was 16, was decorated with the Iron Cross, First Class, and wore a noncom's stripes when he was 17. A restless postwar rebel, he joined the Freikorps, a kind of guerrilla band that refused to accept the peace of Versailles. He was an accessory in a political murder, served six years...
...couch, it often takes on the look of a private hell, where the only fun is in being singed. Most adults know-that childhood is not really so bad. It hurts, of course, but it has its compensations-often wispy and ungraspable by memory. In his autobiography of boyhood in an English village, 45-year-old British Poet Laurie Lee shows that his childhood is still with him, like a second self. The Edge of Day has a shine that is as foreign to contemporary books about boyhood as the first years of this century are to the present...