Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London school playground, a little girl cried to a boy who had muffed her throw: "Cor blimey, you ain't 'arf a butterfmgers." The boy shouted amiably...
...boil yer 'ead!" Minutes later, in class, the same two children recited Housman's poetry, and their every o was pear-shaped, every a well rounded, every h clearly aspirated. Confided the boy: "We know if we talk nice-I mean, nicely-we'll get better jobs...
...Shepard is hardly satisfied yet, this summer will deluge parents with letters urging them to keep children studying on their own for a head start next fall. "Why should a boy strive to overcome all obstacles and get a college degree and then have to run an elevator?" he asks. "Because we simply cannot base our possibilities on present limitations. They might be swept away tomorrow by the president of the company, and then it would be too late for preparation...
...Lanai suites of the Americana hotel. There the lordly jocks drifted from backslapper to backslapper, soaked up booze from novel dispensers-Panama Records had a machine with faucets for martinis and Manhattans. And everywhere a D.J. went, record company promoters kept telling him: "Without you we're dead, boy...
Time Walked, by Vera Panova. An apolitical but warmly Russian account of the tides in the life of a six-year-old boy...