Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poet's life. Liddell has carefully scrutinized all previous sources in an effort to weed out fancy from fact, and the result is a thoughtful, sympathetic and above all scholarly rendition of a life. Launching his study with a discussion of the Cavafy genealogy, Liddell traces the poet's boyhood in Alexandria, London and Constantinople; his return to Alexandria as a young man; and his attempts to conceal his homosexuality from the Alexandrian society in which his family moved--despite their displacement from the upper-class Greek community to a state of near-impoverishment. The book is to a certain...
...common last week to so many of their fellow Americans. Cover Writer Ed Magnuson, who performed his duties in the comfortable 70° temperature of his 25th-floor office overlooking a frigid Manhattan, had no difficulty even in those circumstances in conjuring up the vivid sensations of his Minnesota boyhood, when winter temperatures could dip as low as -40° and cross-country skiing on the Mississippi River outside his door was a fairly common sport. The cold fact is that this is Magnuson's 65th cover story for TIME, another record for the week. For Associate Editor Peter...
Carter was doing no more than other Presidents and officials have done. But his memories of his boyhood include the long dusty hours that he worked in the family fields. After he became a full-time farmer in 1953, Carter and Wife Rosalynn boned up on the latest agricultural techniques, gradually increased their holdings to 2,000 acres and greatly expanded the family peanut warehouse. The warehouse business now has annual revenues of about $1 million, and in 1975 paid Carter...
...series stretches from Kinte's African boyhood through his offspring's torturous rise from slavery in America. Unglamorized and at times disturbingly stark, Roots features Cicely Tyson as Kinte's mother, Maya Angelou as his grandmother, John Amos as Kinte in middle age, and Ben Vereen as his grandson. Kinte as a teenager will be portrayed by LeVar Burton, 19, a U.S.C. sophomore and acting novice. To give the somber story line additional star power, such big names as Lorne Greene, Lloyd Bridges, Chuck Connors, O.J. Simpson, Leslie Uggams and Doug McClure will appear in small roles...
...same civilized tone pervades this epistolatory collection-missives, telegrams and interoffice memos-thai ranges back to White's suburban boyhood in Westchester, N.Y., then follows him through careers as student, editorialist, humorist, farmer and, finally, retiree to the shores of Maine...