Word: boyhoods
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...subsided last week in Dixon, Ill., the old neighborhood at the top of the hill on Hennepin Avenue tidied up to welcome the rest of the world. People will come from across oceans and states, in campers and Cadillacs, peering in the dark corners of Reagan's restored boyhood home for insight into what makes a President...
Even before the peaked and porched Queen Anne-style house was refurbished, 18,000 tourists visited the new mecca. It is one of 13 such presidential boyhood homes open to the public. Nearly 200,000 people visit Dwight Eisenhower's home each year in Abilene, Kans., and some 30,000 find Theodore Roosevelt's house on New York City's East 20th Street...
...appeal would be limited by politics and geography. But O'Donnell's thoughtful narrative transcends its arena. The author, 31, grew up in a street-tough Irish Catholic society that had bred legions of police; he had known one of the officers in the case since boyhood. His father, a prominent Boston attorney who took on the widow's case, is himself a former policeman. Thus the book depicts the racial consciousness and social mores of big-city police with fairness, even compassion. That is especially striking because a chilling incident brought the author aboard...
...marketplace in Haiti's fertile Artibonite Valley. The man's gait was heavy, his eyes vacant. The peasants watched fearfully as he approached a local woman named Angelina Narcisse. She listened as he introduced himself, then screamed in horror-and recognition. The man had given the boyhood nickname of her deceased brother Clairvius Narcisse, a name that was known only to family members and had not been used since his funeral...
...impossible has intrigued Lewis since boyhood. Back in 1968, when Carl was seven, Bob Beamon of New York City leaped a record 29 ft. 2½ in. in the Mexico City Olympics, almost two feet farther than anyone else had ever managed. But when Lewis was ten, he marked off the distance in his Willingboro, N.J., front yard and thought about being the best in the world. Challenging records was a family tradition. His parents were both collegiate stars, who formed their own track and field club in 1969 and coach at competing high schools. His sister Carol...