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...Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), to the commonplace women of the Pulitzer prizewinning Picnic (1953), to the wistful nightclub singer and the cowboy of Bus Stop (1955), to the ordinary family life in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), Inge drew on his own Kansas boyhood for "some very sustaining memories of people in their sad, funny, futile, courageous and frightened ways of meeting life and trying to cope with it." When his engaging but minor talent began to fail, he turned to Hollywood, where his screenplay for Splendor in the Grass (1961) won an Oscar. Good...
...literature did I find anything with a comparable emotional atmosphere and as strong an esthetic appeal baseball, with its longeurs and thrills, its spaciousness . . . its peculiarly hypnotic tedium, its heroics, its nuances, its 'characters,' its language, and its mythic sense of itself, was the literature of my boyhood...
...family was established in 1971 by John Maher, then 30, and three other ex-addicts. All four had served prison terms, and three were disillusioned dropouts from Synanon. The name they chose for themselves was inspired by Maher's boyhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where, in the 19th century, Delancey Street came to symbolize the self-reliant spirit of Old World immigrants working their way into the mainstream of American life...
...developed his familiar themes-less federal spending, more self-reliance. Said he: "Let us remember that America was built not by government but by people-not by welfare, but by work -not by shirking responsibility, but by seeking responsibility." As if yearning for the world of his California boyhood, when self-reliance brought just rewards and fewer people were locked into an interdependence that required the helping hand of government, Nixon turned around John Kennedy's most famous pitch for patriotism: "Let each of us ask, not just what will government do for me, but what...
...often dwells there. The Nixon partisans argue that it helped trap him. It is a curious footnote to history that long before he ran into trouble, Johnson had turned central Texas into a living monument to his heritage and his journey to the summit (the L.B.J. birthplace, the L.B.J. boyhood home, the L.B.J. state park, the L.B.J. ranch and more...