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...title he earned last week is one that Joe Clark has coveted since his boyhood days in High River, Alta., when, recalled a cousin, "he really did say that he wanted to be Prime Minister. We used to kid him a lot about it." The shy, ungainly son of a local newspaper editor and his schoolteacher wife, Clark was an average student who did well in English and public speaking. He became a member of the campus Tory club while earning a B. A. in history at the University of Alberta, and studied law for a year before realizing...
...columns for which he won the Pulitzer dealt with tax reform, the ever shorter life spans of trends, inflation, the difference between serious and solemn, loneliness, fear, dying, a boyhood summer, Norman Rockwell and the death of New Times magazine...
Last July 4 Baker hit splendor dead-on with a misty, elegiac column called "Summer Beyond Wish." The piece was set in the rural Virginia of his boyhood. It was full of love, the rich, buzzing emptiness of a country summer and the sense that poverty was near...
Birdy and Al are boyhood chums. They fall out of the nest at the same time, both managing to land on their feet in a poor neighborhood outside Philadelphia. Al is a Sicilian tough guy, dark and intent on making himself a strongman. He excells as an athlete, making it with the cheerleaders, before getting his face and gut shattered by artillery in World...
While we suspend disbelief, we also hold back cynicism. We glide in Bridy's tailwind, tramp behind Al and Birdy through a series of touching, painful and often hilarious boyhood adventures, and we dodge mines and shells with Al as he takes on the Germans. Along the way, Al discovers that his muscle is a front hiding a fearful but honest man-boy. Birdy confronts his birdness and slowly lets it migrate from...