Word: boyhoods
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Trying to preside over it all is Wolf Walker, a troubled escapee from a Hasidic Jewish boyhood. For him-head still throbbing with Talmudic commentary and heart still wrung by questions of moral choice-the academy is a refuge from his own perplexed humanity. Armed with tough talk ("Suicides are like children. You have to know when to ignore them"), he struggles to give academy inmates a fairer choice than they ever got in the real world. At the same time, he fights off board members who are chiefly interested in getting the would-be suicides to leave their money...
...writing, and assembles it in chronological order. The result unquestionably is the most exhaustive biography ever written about Crane-or likely to be written. Nothing is ignored: the details of his birth in 1871, the 14th child of a gentle Methodist minister in Newark, the fairly typical boyhood years in Port Jervis, N.Y., the erratic career as a reporter for New York City papers, and finally, his years as a correspondent covering the Greco-Turkish and Spanish-American wars...
Then afterwards when the boy is told of the impossibility of the love there is a frightful guitar burst by Townshend again conveying, as intended, to me that bitter and desperate feeling of being crushed in boyhood. Obviously this is not to say the sound on the guitar would have automatically reminded one, if suddenly heard, of childhood grief but simply that one must ask, given an assigned context, did the music fit it or not, which is the universal challenge of opera, and its universal glory when it succeeds...
...American boy to admire and which man used more "homey" language, filled with folksy metaphors and phrases. It was only in the debates that this factor was brought out, when both Nixon and Humphrey were speaking directly to the nation, and when they chose to talk at length about boyhood and their personal lives...
...After all the nudity and everything else, I felt strongly about the complete opposite-propriety and prudence," slyly insists the 34-year-old designer, who likes to point out that he has belonged to the Church of England since his London boyhood. Though Chicago Daily News Columnist Virginia Kay awarded him "the Shockingly Bad Taste Award of the Year, Decade and Century," teenagers across the country latched onto the dresses by the rackful. Commented Monsignor Joseph T.V. Snee, who oversees all 8,000 Catholic nuns in the Archdiocese of New York: "If the women of our times have now decided...