Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seclusion. For some there is the need to escape the routine of trekking back and forth from the dining hall and bothering with the social amenities in order to manage serious academic accomplishment in their last two years. And some men just want to feel less like a college boy and more like an individual. This feeling is not without parallel in the Harvard tradition...
Managing at Harvard is distinctly different from the stereotyped impressions of a high school manager. Here the manager is neither locker room attendent nor water boy. Rather, he is equivalent to the business manager of a professional team...
When The Long Night begins for Steely, his father has walked out on his family. But on this day, Mamma has hit it lucky playing the numbers game. When she sends Steely to collect her $27, she warns him: "And if you lose that money, boy, don't you come back at all." He doesn't lose it; bigger boys of his own gang take it away from him. The rest of The Long Night tells how Steely tries to beg, borrow or steal $27. No one will let him work for it. The Harlem fancy...
...background and fleeced by his women. But Lawyer-Novelist Auchincloss (The Great World and Timothy Colt, Sybil) pleads his case effectively. He also secures his own expanding niche in American letters, where he suavely dissects the outwardly successful failures and where, in the Fitzgerald tradition, the rich boy never gets off Scott free...
Premier May (French). A skinny-shanked French boy (Yves Noel) and his Papa (Yves Montand) make a low-keyed, humorous pair as each, in his own way, adds to his knowledge of the facts of life...