Word: boyhoods
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...always sittin and dont stop to think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.' " Despite its irritating quality, the formless formula works well enough in evoking the often simultaneous boyhood moods of scorn, fear, sentimentality, barefootedness and gleeful obscenity. Writes Kerouac at wild random: "A young and silly dove is yakking in the blue, circling the brown and slushy river with yaks of pipsqueak joy," and "the mystery which I now see hugens, huger, into something beyond my Grook...
Except for boyhood aspirations, Feiffer never wanted to be anything but a cartoonist. When asked what he really wanted to do in life, he immediately replied, "I'm doing it," and added that he would continue "until they catch on to me." For a while, Feiffer attended the Pratt Institute of Art in New York where, as he says, he learned "very little." "But," he confesses, "that was probably more my fault than theirs...
...novels of Germany's Goethe make an occasion to discuss a man of genius who found it hard to keep away from a pretty woman. After a lucid introduction to Hindu religion, he describes the life of a swami who found the secret of existence in a boyhood flash of illumination and pursued a course of sainthood to his death. And by the simple process of digging up the diaries of three French writers, he makes old gossip seem as juicily Gallic as a Paris headline scandal. Points of View is, in fact, as bland a job of literary...
Ever since his boyhood summers in Boothbay Harbor, Me., Sterling Hayden (born John Hamilton) had been running away to sea whenever the going got rough. At 15, he sailed as workaway on a schooner from Connecticut to California. He shipped as fireman on a steamer, fished off the Grand Banks, finally got his master's papers and wound up part owner of a schooner that was supposed to carry passengers from Hawaii to Tahiti. Only when his ship piled up in a gale did the handsome blond sailor finally agree to take a Hollywood offer and a crack...
...Hartford, Conn., Motorist Oliver P. Barber plowed into the back of a police car, paid a $200 fine despite his testimony that the slurred speech, watery eyes and walking staggers noted by cops had actually been caused by a loose dental plate, an asthma-sinus condition, and a boyhood mishap with an ax that had damaged several tendons in his left foot...