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...this shrewd and sensitive biography reveals, the scholar-poet had reasons for his dual nature. When his willful and vivacious mother, Sarah Jane, succumbed to cancer on Housman's twelfth birthday in 1871, an idyllic rural boyhood came to a traumatic end. His ineffectual solicitor father, Edward, remarried, took to drink, and in a fit of modernism had his five sons circumcised when Alfred, the eldest, was at least 14. It was a shock to the youth, and one of the causes of his later withdrawal into a formal persona from which he would rarely emerge. He reported...
...musical community a fresh voice to celebrate." Accepting the degree, Galway treated the 109th graduating class of the august Boston school to that very ebullience and panache. From under his doctoral robes, he produced two tin whistles on which he played Belfast Hornpipe and jigs drawn from an Irish boyhood...
...knew many things) of Paris' cafés. He returned to Spain to paint The Farm, 1921-22, which proved he was not too intimidated by his Paris experience: though it had the cubists' flat composition, it was detailed with the intimate knowledge only a farm boyhood could achieve. Ernest Hemingway, who bought the painting, wrote appreciatively: "It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there...
Synopsis: In the first installment, music fans, our hero left his boyhood home in Poland to make his way as a pianistic prodigy. Life seemed a feast of caviar, sex and pampering by the fashionable names of European art and society. But precocity was not enough. He needed discipline to rise from idleness and a suicide attempt and gain "the necessary hold on my career." By 1917, when he was 30, he felt he was ready. Now on with the story...
Douglas' fierce individuality and his support of the little man grew out of a boyhood of poverty in Yakima, Wash. To help support his family, he labored as a field hand alongside migrant workers; he climbed mountains to rebuild legs weakened by polio. It was on these hikes that Douglas developed a love for the wilderness that he would later celebrate with dozens of books on travel and wildlife. Throughout his career, he would flee the U.S. capital to return to the Western mountains or explore remote areas of the world from the high Himalayas to the Dead...