Word: boyhoods
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...leader and prophet of "la Huelga," the California grape pickers' 35-month-old strike in the verdant San Joaquin Valley, Cesar Chavez, 41, has combined hard-knuckled organizing tactics with a brand of mysticism peculiarly his own. A Mexican-American who from boyhood worked in the vineyards himself, Chavez patched together his tatterdemalion National Farm Workers Association in 1965, organized scores of picket lines, boycotts, church meetings, marches and sing-ins to lift his people out of peonage...
...verve and 2,000,000-candlepower smiles, Tommy Steele's range is small, and the movie's relentless series of overproduction numbers serve to reveal his limits. Of the cast of thousands, only Cyril Ritchard as a pauperized playwright and Grover Dale as Kipps's clogging boyhood colleague come off well, largely because their appearances are confined to a few key scenes...
Memory is a subtle liar and often a bad writer of fiction-but it can be a marvelous storyteller. Very early in this rush of remembrance of a Brooklyn boyhood 30 years ago, it is clear that Gerald Green has let memory do all the work. His hero, Albert Abrams, is a skinny, precocious, unheroic kid who tags fearfully after a gang of asphalt Iroquois called the Raiders. The book follows Albert and his heroes-a splendidly underprivileged crew of dirty-cut young men-through a wild summer day in the Brownsville streets. The action begins with the formal curbside...
...nearly everyone, a mania for collecting is a transitory phase of childhood. But for a few, the habit becomes a lifelong obsession. For Manhattan Art Dealer Sidney Janis, it began with hoarding marbles during his boyhood in Buffalo, and led to a perceptive collection of 20th century art. For Anne Kinsolving Brown, daughter of a Baltimore minister, the impetus came from a book on soldiers that she spied in a toy store at the age of nine. "The bands were still playing in 1915," she recalls, "and the French poilu still wore red trousers." The book opened up a brave...
Columbia has the height to battle Princeton. Dave Newmark--a boyhood chum of former Harvard captain Gene Dressler, has an unusually soft touch for a big man and may neutralize the Tigers' Chris Thomforde underneath...