Word: boyhoods
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Although Brokaw has moved far from his boyhood home, the town has left indelible traces on his soul. Brokaw's keen judge of character, flair for common sense and no-nonsense attitude originated in Yankton, he says...
...strike his classmates as weird or worrisome--unlike another student who wound up in jail. He did have one notable hobby, though: "I remember Ted had the know-how of putting together things like batteries, wire leads, potassium nitrate and whatever and creating explosions," recalls his boyhood friend Dale Eickelman, now a Dartmouth professor. The boys detonated explosives in fields or in a metal garbage can, using ingredients they could scrounge around the house or buy at the hardware store...
Born in Los Angeles, the conductor comes from a theatrical background. His grandparents Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky were stars of the Yiddish theater in New York City, and young Michael grew up in a musical household. Boyhood piano lessons were followed at the University of Southern California by studies with pianist John Crown and composer-conductor Ingolf Dahl, a summer stint as an assistant at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1966, and an appointment as William Steinberg's assistant at the Boston Symphony Orchestra three years later...
While one such skirmish can sink a campaign, both supporters and rivals will find much more to debate in the character and record of Lamar Alexander, from his idyllic Appalachian boyhood through a public career driven by a steel-willed, bland-faced ambition...
OVER THE YEARS, YEKATERINburg has been good to Boris Yeltsin. It was in this industrial city in the Urals that Russia's first freely elected President spent his boyhood years. It was here that he built his early career in the Communist Party. And it was to Yekaterinburg that he came, in 1991, to inaugurate his campaign for the presidency. The city has been an auspicious place for him, which is why he returned there last Thursday to launch his bid for re-election...