Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morris. 143 pages. Harper & Row. $3.95. In North Toward Home, the former editor in chief of Harper's told about a grownup visit to his tiny home town, Yazoo City, Miss., back in 1967. This book, written for his son who lives in New York, celebrates Morris' boyhood in Yazoo before World War II. It is drenched in crawdads, squirrel dumplings, Delta woodlands, and Peck's-bad-boy jokes. But Morris eases out of realism into fantasy and back with no strain, and it's nice to think that somebody more contemporary than Huck Finn could...
John Stewart's album of last year, Willard, was one such little-known success. Ironically Stewart, a former member of the Kingston Trio, has always been extremely sensitive to the fine details of his AM-oriented boyhood in Los Angeles. Because he chooses to describe those details, instead of reproducing them. Willard is probably inherently unsuited for AM play...
...Bones and The Call, are summer-weight Southern gothic. in which the author follows the convention of this school by writing about the rural poor as if they were all dimwitted. The title work, Goat Songs, is something else. A series of erotic recollections links a man to his boyhood. The episodes are brief: a flicker of memory, a few moments of musing. Perceptions are intense, and in their heat the flesh of narrative falls away. Memory is capricious, not orderly, and important events occur in the silences between the chapters...
...sitting in America's jails and to not a few who end up sitting upon the right hand of GM or any of the country's other major corporations. Yet just as the factors of racial caste and economic class separate George Jackson's background and boyhood from those of GM chairman John Roche, so did another set of factors separate Jackson's early life from those of many of the men who were late to be his brother inmates...
...Connally, life has indeed been sweet. Beginning with his hardscrabble boyhood on a Texas farm, he has been irresistibly drawn to wealth and power and has managed, by an adroit mixture of dash and obsequence, to gain both. As Lyndon B. Johnson's Wolsey for more than 30 years and a three-term Democratic Governor of Texas, he learned well the means of acquiring and using political power. Now he is one of the most potent and magnetic personalities in Richard Nixon's Washington, the chief designer of Phase I, the prime enforcer of Phase II, and by most accounts...