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...lighter side of literary scholarship gives A Certain World only a small part of its total impact. Auden has involved himself in a great variety of intellectual pursuits, from his boyhood mania for lead mining to his mature infatuation with opera. They are all charted on this mental map, though music is slighted because, as the poet points out, "nothing can be said about music, except when...
...Masters, Casper refreshed himself with a five-week layoff and just one tune-up tournament to put a high gloss on his game. It paid off as he out-putted Bert Yancey and Gary Player in the final round and went into a play-off with his old boyhood friend Gene Littler. Relying again on his trusty mallet-head, Casper one-putted seven of the first eleven greens, holing snaking shots from 15 and 30 feet. He went on to win by five strokes. Throughout the 90 holes of play, Casper needed only 145 putts while Littler needed...
Irving has been around the track since his boyhood. After nine years in the army, he returned to racing in his middle twenties. He tried leaving the track again. He became a painter for a summer, then switched to carpentry, made a lot of money, and bought...
Dream of Hardware. His love of objects, Dine figures, goes back to his boyhood in Cincinnati, where he worked after school in his father's hardware store. "I was completely bored by the selling," he recalls, "but in my boredom I found that daydreaming amongst objects of affection was very nice. Commercial paint-color charts were real jewel lists for me." After majoring in painting at Ohio University in Athens, he set off for New York in 1959. Happenings were what was happening, and Dine was soon in the thick of them. "Happenings were good because they...
...different Bellow came bursting out in 1953 with The Adventures of Augie March, a big, dizzy, exuberant book. Augie is tough, cheerful, naive, a searcher and an optimist. His problem: where to roost? The Jewish life of his Chicago boyhood? Wonderful! A spell as a thief? Why not? The university? That too. The book ricochets about the Chicago of Bellow's own young manhood; but if the author has a wild yarn to tell about a madman in a lifeboat, he ships Augie out on a tanker; if Mexico appeals to author or hero, off they both...