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Friends from boyhood days back in St. Paul, Burger and Blackmun were quickly dubbed the court's Minnesota Twins. Blackmun's elevation to the court from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals was prompted by Burger's endorsement, and in Blackmun's first term the two differed on only 10% of the cases. They have never again been so much in accord, but a key split took place last July after the Chief wrote a draft of the court's unanimous opinion in U.S. v. Nixon, the explosive Executive privilege case. Most of the Justices...
...Wilderness. An uncharacteristically cheerful work by Eugene O'Neill, this is a nostalgic evocation of a normal American small-town boyhood--the king of boyhood O'Neill might have liked to have had himself. Complete with puppy love, comic uncles, and summertime pranks, the play sometimes verges on sentimental corn. But a good production--such as this one by the BU Summer Repertory Theater is likely to be--can make it all work wonderfully, and it's worth seeing just to get a glimpse of the lighter side of O'Neill's psyche. It's hard to believe that...
...those who want to disassemble Thurber as an eight-year-old would a broken alarm clock, the gears and springs are all here: the bow-and-arrow accident that cost him one eye at the age of six, the loopy Columbus boyhood, the insuperable Midwestern chauvinism, the sexual shyness, the days as a code clerk at the U.S. embassy in Paris, the two dozen straight rejections by The New Yorker, the friendships with Playwright-Actor Elliot Nugent and E.B. White, the odd adversary relationship with New Yorker Editor Harold Ross...
Burn all high school yearbooks, tell loathsome lies to old roommates who telephone after 20 years, on pain of black despair avoid sentimental journeys to childhood beer gardens, and never, never reread Look Homeward, Angel. But here comes Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury's magical boyhood novel Dandelion Wine, republished in a new edition after 19 years. Is its magic powerful enough to make it young again, or is its neck corded and scrawny in the collar of that new dust jacket...
...though only 13.6 million belong to the 110 increasingly disparate unions that make up his confederation. Meany used to be as grumpy with the press as a snapping turtle, but in his youthful old age he can charm Dick Cavett on late-night television by relating stories of his boyhood in The Bronx at the turn of the century. Meany has perked up the Sunday TV interview scene by calling Chairman Arthur Burns of the Federal Reserve Board "a national disaster" for his tight-money policies. And he dismisses Alan Greenspan, the chief of the President's Council...