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...earnest of good intentions, the producers sent a location unit to Tennessee, and exteriors for the movie were filmed at Agee's boyhood haunts in and around Knoxville. They look fine. The Agee home was soon to be razed, so its back porch was salvaged for one sequence, and its furnishings were shipped East to lend authenticity to interior scenes. Trouble is, the author's durable patchwork of memories cannot be packed and crated, nor can intimations of every man's mortality be reduced to a broad hint that something is going to happen to Dad. Director...
Political Blood. To his father's regret, young Alec Home lost interest in fox hunting after falling off a walking horse the first time he rode to hounds. Home still follows his other boyhood pursuits: bird watching, butterfly collecting, flower arranging, piano playing. Macmillan occasionally visits the Homes for the grouse shooting, and, friends say, was about to tip the gillie ?2 one day, when the thrifty Earl advised him sharply: "Half as much will...
...fascination of his brother's memories lies in the fact that the sum of detail never accounts for the man and if John Faulkner furnishes few of the portentous correlations between literature and life that are the delight of graduate students, he splendidly evokes the flavor of boyhood in a small Deep Southern town surprised by the turn of the century...
Anyone who thinks he has read all this before will be right. But no one should therefore write off Gordon Parks's The Learning Tree as just another fictional recollection of an all-American boyhood. For Newt Winger is a Negro. His graduation ceremony is segregated, and the defeated bully (another Negro) is driven to his death by a white cop. His brother-in-law is a dangerous drunk who loads a shotgun whenever he gets loaded himself, and blazes away at the sky shouting "I'm gonna blow the ass off Jesus Christ, the long-legged white...
...fable for two-the cruel cat of collective human conformity endlessly toying with the mouse of an individual's deformity. But Grass has set the jaws of his literary mousetrap much wider than that. Just as a straight chronicle of the sometimes nasty habits and high hopes of boyhood, his story should become a minor classic like Kipling's Stalky & Co., Alain Fournier's romantic pre-World War I The Wanderer, and John Knowles's A Separate Peace. No one, at any rate, excels Grass in one prerequisite for writing about adolescence...