Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming Up for Air, George Orwell's fictional elegy for a vanished England, includes a celebration of boyhood fishing. The catch is lowly tench and carp, but the thrill comes from sitting by a green pool ringed with beech trees and watching a huge pike "that was basking in the reeds turn and plunge." Pike were beyond the boy's reach: "They'd have broken any tackle I possessed...
Obviously unprepared for the occasion, Hartke started slowly. He sought to inspire his troops, and what could be more inspiring than stories of his south Indiana boyhood? Unfortunately, he could think of nothing. He told of his second-grade teacher, and by the time he started in on his high school teachers and the central role of prayer in his success I knew it was time for me to leave...
Yevtushenko looked tired like a boxer in the ninth round as he launched himself in the passion of his second performance. His voice appealed to the heart and hove with boyhood sincerity. It reached, honestly I thought, for Mayakovsky, the great father of the Russian declamatory style who is evoked in the poem. But, unlike the Voice of Mayakovsky, Yevtushenko's carried no spiritual impact. In any performing career there is this danger: that the poet will come not to live for his own struggle and the larger implied struggle of mankind, but for the struggle's applause. The struggle...
...decades, Mauldin has been one of America's better-known political cartoonists. Yet his approach to his own story, which he carries only up to his mustering-out day in 1945, is one of embarrassed wonder and unembarrassed pride. His boyhood had been spent well below the poverty line. Yet just ten years after he started cartooning from a correspondence course, Willie, his best-known creation, was on the cover of TIME, a book of his cartoons was No. 1 on the bestseller list, and 200 newspapers had signed up for his future output. He was still only...
...real to be an amusement park. In conceiving of Disneyland. Disney again played a merely conceptual role in terms of actual design, although he personally designed Tom Sawyer's Island. This, taken with Main Street USA, indicates that Disney was primarily interested in pristine nostalgia for a lost boyhood mythology of the nineteenth century Disney must have felt exiled from this world when his father suffered financial reverses and the Disney family had to seek its fortune in the city, and in the twentieth century. One can see the influence of Disney's lost boyhood in the myths recreated...