Word: boyhoods
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...mode: use of the classic myth set up as framework for a contemporary tale. Updike readers will find it a bit of a jolt. One is used to seeing Updike detail the perfectly ordinary life; the marriage that never should have been, or, again and again, minutiae of his boyhood in rural Pennsylvania...
Russell's own boyhood ambition to be Governor of Louisiana, in the fashion of his family, has gradually been buried in Senate seniority, which is now too valuable to surrender. Russell seems less regretful every year. "I have a fond and warm recollection of my father," he says. "but I have my job to do, and for a long time now I have been working for Russell Long, not Huey Long...
...kind young men dream about; six of his books, including two well-received novels (The Poorhouse Fair, and Rabbit, Run) have been published. A third novel, The Centaur, will be issued later this month; it is a complex attempt to combine as parallel themes reminiscence of small-town boyhood with Greek mythology. There is almost no critic who has not praised Updike's crystalline style, his mastery of the distilled phrase. Yet amid the praise there is a growing impatience. Novelist Stacton, who admires Updike's "sense of words," summed it up recently: "I wish he could find...
...Congressmen consider to be Mills's besetting flaw: an apparent insecurity that sometimes makes him overcautious. The flaw is all the more puzzling in that, far more than most men, Mills has escaped defeats and detours in life. He is that fortunate rarity, a man who has fulfilled his boyhood dreams...
...town, owner of a busy country store that sold everything from horehound drops to horse collars. (Mills's mother, 77, still helps run the store.) Later on, Ardra Mills acquired a cotton gin and an interest in the local bank. Wilbur worked in the store during his boyhood, but early in life he was struck with awed admiration of William A. Oldfield, the bouncy, genial Congressman from the district. In his travels around his constituency, Oldfield frequently visited Kensett and stopped at the Mills store. "I was talking about running for Congress by the time I was ten," Mills recently...