Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even come away with something like my own sense that what is regrettable in Jimmy's life now is your and my presence in his native place; the fact that he cannot return here in peace and roam as I've done in absolute stillness past his boyhood house, the neighboring hovels, the empty woods, the acres of graves just up the road at the site of the prison at Andersonville, where almost 13,000 men died in 14 months to feed brands of ignorance and malice still ravenous now as then-or spend a long evening...
...shortly after V-J day and at a military hospital in Kentucky a damaged veteran sits in a padded cell. Or rather he squats and occasionally hops, knees together, fingers laced behind his back, arms flapping. Understandably puzzled, the Army psychiatrist in charge summons the patient's boyhood friend from the Philadelphia suburbs and asks him to try to break through this strange behavior. Al Columbato brings his own problems with him. He is recovering from plastic surgery on his jaw, smashed in Germany, and from the knowledge of his own profound cowardice under fire. He is not sure...
Despite Don Bolles's death and the IRE series, it is men like Kemper Marley who continue to run the state of Arizona. Barry Goldwater, exposed by the IRE team for his association with gangsters and members of the Arizona mob, is still a United States senator. Goldwater's boyhood friend Harry Rosenzweig, also implicated by the IRE series for connections to organized crime, still wields vast political and financial clout in Arizona, although he is no longer chairman of the state's Republican Party. For all of the token reforms that have occurred in Arizona, the state is still...
...stage of De Chirico's early paintings, two cultures met. One was the "classical" Mediterranean culture that dominated his boyhood memories. Born in Greece, the son of a peripatetic Sicilian railroad engineer, De Chirico knew it well: the ocher walls of provincial towns, the neglected public gardens, the statuary and antique rubble. On the other hand, modernity was constantly thrusting its emblems into this dream: trains, clocks, surveyors' instruments, rulers, protractors. From this collision between mythic time and measured time, an extraordinary poignancy arose; and the best of these early De Chiricos have not dated...
...influenced in his choice of a career by the Great Crash. "I went into economics," he says, "because the world was suffering from catastrophic depression." The experience did not make him a partisan of Big Government; it convinced him instead of the strength of free enterprise. After a boyhood in Paterson, N.J., he graduated summa cum laude from New York University and earned his doctorate in economics at Yale. He started teaching at Cornell in 1947, and has remained on the faculty ever since...