Word: boyhoods
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...from the days before the Czars through a history that owes little to the West. As for the new gatekeeper, he will reveal himself when he and the state from which he is inseparable are ready. In Speak, Memory, Nabokov tells of awakening mornings in the Russia of his boyhood and glancing at the chink between the white shutters to see what the new day proffered: gloom or "dewy ( brilliancy." The West has no shutters it can open, and the glimpses it gets show almost nothing. This is the way we have learned to live with our adversary, looking eagerly...
...rapid increase in the Filly's fortune coincides almost exactly with the proprietorship of Love and Castagno, who took over the Filly a year ago Boyhood friends from Revere High, both put themselves through college by working as bartenders at Notre Dame and Boston Conservatory, respectively...
...Harvard M.B.A., it is because he is both. His mother, who lives near Hartford, remembers him as "a very emotional boy with great faith." His older brother, an Air Force colonel, says their father's rule was: "There's nothing you cannot do, no task is impossible." Since boyhood, Burr has been interested in aviation; he became a Wall Street analyst of aviation stocks before he was 30, rescued and took over a nosediving airline, Texas International, before...
When the draft board turned down Kerry's proposal to study in Europe after graduating from Yale, Kerry joined the Navy as an officer. Like President John F. Kennedy '40, a boyhood hero with whom Kerry shares initials and an affluent Catholic backround, Kerry became a war hero as a small-boat commander, winning the Bronze Star, the Silver Star and three Purple Hearts...
...genius for undoing his successes. In any case, he had no political traction. For some reason, people heard not so much the substance of his words as his voice, an instrument that tended to reduce his strongest convictions to a whine. Maybe it was the upper Midwest talking, the boyhood as a Norwegian minister's son. In the vibrations of his voice, like wind through fence wire on a gray day, one heard the coming of a Minnesota winter...