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Jewish Blues. In other short stories, Ronald Sukenick coolly chronicles a tale about some free-floating hippies flying "an impossible, ultimate kite" over the East River; and Philip Roth incants a Newark ghetto boyhood in The Jewish Blues. ("The goyim pretended to be something special, while we were actually their moral superiors. And what made us superior was precisely the hatred and the disrespect they lavished so willingly upon...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). "La Belle Epoque: The Boyhood Photos of J. H. Lartigue," the famous French photographer whose pictures chronicle the peaceful period before World...
...volumes. His talents were diverse, and almost inexhaustible. In 1927 he completed a labor of love, his American Songbag, a treasury of the nation's folk songs. His first novel, Remembrance Rock, was finished in 1948. At 74, he published Always the Young Strangers, a memoir of his boyhood. Always, however, his first love was verse and song. As a preface to 1928's Good Morning, America, Sandburg listed 38 tentative definitions of poetry. Among them: "Poetry is a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog...
...Asimov feels that he must work even faster. He has been haunted ever since boyhood by the fact that the human brain reaches the peak of physiological development by the age of 16, after which it can only deteriorate. "My memory is not what it used to be," he says, "and some day the atrophy of the brain cells will overtake the benefits of my experience...
...Guns & Guts. Until joining General Mills, Bob Richards never earned more than $6,000 a year. Something of a neighborhood tough during his boyhood in Champaign, Ill., Richards got religion when he started going with a girl who "wanted a Christian boy friend." After high school, he attended a small church school in Virginia, where he was a star athlete, and where he met and married Mary Leah Cline (they have three teen-age children). He then transferred to the University of Illinois, where he showed equal proficiency in the vaulting pit and the classroom. Armed with a master...