Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...existing." He was raised in the rural outskirts of Dallas by his mother Juanita and his maternal grandfather Joe Trevino, an immigrant gravedigger. Their four-room frame house ?located "about two miles over in the country"?had neither electricity nor running water. Lee had to improvise his boyhood games. Basketball was played with a tennis ball. A taped beer can served as a football...
LARRY HINSON, 26, a string-bean-lean blond from Douglas, Ga., won the 1966 N.C.A.A. golf title while a senior at East Tennessee State. Though his left arm is slightly withered from a boyhood bout with polio, he is solidly accurate from tee to green. In 1969, his first full year on the tour, he won $54,267. Last season he pocketed $120,897 and was the eighth-highest scorer on the tour. "I want to win the big four -our Open, the British Open, the P.G.A. and the Masters-then I'll retire. I know what that sounds...
Magic Lantern. It was in a tiny room across the hall that the author spent his boyhood holidays. "Far from my mother and grandmother, my bedroom became the fixed point on which my melancholy and anxious thoughts were centered. Someone had had the happy idea of giving me, to distract me on evenings when I seemed abnormally wretched, a magic lantern ... it substituted for the opaqueness of my walls an impalpable iridescence, supernatural phenomena of many colours, in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory window." The lantern is still there. So is the scrubby garden behind...
...Northcote Parkinson, though known for his prankish wit, was a naval historian before he began his researches into the modern disease that may properly be called "administrationitis."* His fully fabricated account of Hornblower's career, from an impecunious "boyhood in Kent to a peaceful death at 80 in 1857-which came, appropriately, while the by then viscount was reading Gibbon-is circumstantial to a fault. The book bristles with references to "new sources" of information, as well as a full quota of those "we can fairly assumes" peculiar to Victorian biography. It comes fully provided, too, with an index...
...Limestone Institute). "I don't have any trouble sleeping," he says. "I'm doing what I want to do." He is modishly dressed in wide collar and thick tie, yet talks with the slow rasp of a country preacher, which he almost became. The paradox again. His boyhood heroes are George Norris, Bob La Follette and Peter Norbeck, who worried most about the people, and McGovern is doing no less. "We have lost our individualism, our sense of our own uniqueness. The young are closer to the truth...