Word: boyhoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SIMON It's my given name. But most people call me Neil, or by my boyhood nickname...
WAITING FOR THE MORNING TRAIN: AN AMERICAN BOYHOOD...
...Catton takes leave of the Civil War to recall his own boyhood in Benzonia, then and now a tiny town on Michigan's northwestern frontier. It is a land where life is still "easy and pleasant, with fish to be caught and clear lakes for swimming." Yet as Catton looks out his window, he can see the threatening white domes of early-warning radar installations...
Bare Ruined Choirs grew out of sorrow. It is the complaint of a Catholic who loved the Church of his boyhood, but who knows well that the old Church couldn't survive. The old Church was at least beautiful, built on a beautiful liturgy and a set of symbols which only the Catholic could understand the importance of not chewing the Communion host don't chew baby Jesus"), altar boy assignments at crazy hours "when God was a morning woozily began under candles: "JMJ's (for "Jesus Mary and Joseph") at the top of Schoolwork the sign of the Cross...
...packaged for cultural consumption. He leaves the sordid bachelor digs he shares with his grandfather in Philadelphia when summoned to Atlantic City by his brother Jason's telegram, "Get your ass down here. The Kingdom is come." The "Kingdom" turns out to be but a revived version of a boyhood fantasy: to take over Tiki island, one of the Hawaiian archipelago, build a casino and amass a fast fortune. The Staebler brothers spend the rest of the film trying to subsidize the dream. Meanwhile they live precariously, like Vegas princes in seamy unpaid-for hotel rooms. Jason (Bruce Dera), keeps...