Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last-the real truth about Watergate! Richard Nixon had this unconscious "need to fail," you see, which stemmed from guilt over his boyhood "sexual yearning for his mother." The forbidden Oedipal urge required punishment, and with a man as competitive as Nixon, failure was the worst possible penalty. So Nixon punished himself by "arranging his own failures" and became "his own executioner...
...exploratory." This is about as comforting to Landau as seeing Charon beckon for the ferry ride across the Styx. What Parmigian tries to do is to summon up in him the image of man's courage in extremity. This image is buried in Landau's boyhood memories when he saw an old Jew (Paul Sparer) rounded up by the Nazis...
Lancelot's book-length monologue is addressed not only to the reader but also to Percival, a priest-physician and boyhood friend. His name rings of both the author's own and of Lancelot's companion in the Arthurian legend. He is silent, staring at a girl out the window until the book closes with his response to Lancelot that is Percy's hope for a rejuvenated Christianity...
...weathered face parted in an open smile and the white-haired, wrinkled man of 43 was alive with the baseball joys of boyhood...
Perhaps it is best to remember Darwin's genius and the society in which it found its calling by a paragraph from "The Evening Round." Darwin wrote this essay after reading over his boyhood diary and discovering that he usually played his first eighteen of the spring sometime during the past week. Long after those youthful eighteens, he recalls...