Word: boyhoods
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...inconvenient moment for late-afternoon callers. Frankfurt Banker Jurgen Ponto, 53, and his wife Ines were packing to catch a vacation flight to Rio de Janeiro. Still, the visitor was special -Susanne Albrecht, 26, Ponto's godchild and the daughter of a Hamburg lawyer who had been his boyhood friend. She was bearing a bouquet of red roses. So it was that the chairman of the Dresdener Bank, West Germany's second largest, stopped packing long enough to receive Albrecht at his 30-room villa in the wealthy Frankfurt suburb of Oberursel. With her through the iron gate...
...have left him maimed; a radiant older brother died of pneumonia at the age of six in the year in which Saville was born, and his parents' grief made their reactions to the new baby guarded and distant. In the life of the mind, Saville lives a surrogate boyhood. For him, as for the surrounding villagers, maturity is impossible, and hope is a kind of toy that adults are ashamed to embrace...
...instance, I never saw so many lawns being cut at the same time. The smell of newly mown grass drifted out of the hills onto the flat land and overpowered the senses. There were American flags on the houses of the meanest and most ageless old recluses of my boyhood. The place was taut with pride. There was something touching in the spontaneity...
...Haldeman visit is relatively brief; it is the "other states of mind" that preoccupy Mee. He reflects on his Midwestern Catholic boyhood, his adolescent, nearly fatal struggle against polio - an illness that drove him into intellectualism as a kind of self-defense. He describes his career at Harvard and his two marriages, both of which cracked up. It was during the Cuban missile crisis that Mee decided to leave home: "If I was to die, I told myself, I did not wish to die with my first wife." He loved the time for its vivid gaiety: "I thought...
Powell read avidly, acting out his favorite Civil War battles or painting posters of them that are still stored in the family attic. "His imagination was one of his best friends," says his mother June, 58. It pretty well had to be. Recalls a boyhood chum, Lee Guerry: "Mostly we went to a movie, got a hamburger and then rode around in our cars watching other people ride around." The outside world intruded when the schools were ordered integrated in 1970. Mrs. Powell, a teacher for 30 years, was one of the few whites to stay in the public school...