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Word: boys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Julie Andrews, 23, peaches-and-cream-cheeked British star of My Fair Lady and The Boy Friend, whose airy musicomedy elegance showed through both cockney grime and flapper apparel; and Scene Designer Tony Walton, 24, a childhood sweetheart; in Weybridge, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...decade's most celebrated banger of mystical ashcans has written a fictional account of his childhood, and surprisingly, while the lad he describes is no Penrod, neither is he Little Boy Beat. Jack Duluoz, the author's alter-Kerouac, is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent-a kind of city-bound Tom Sawyer who at one point seems ready to go rafting down New England's flood-swollen Merrimack River on a henhouse roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grooking in Lowell | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Grook," the keyword of the novel, always refers to something ominously exciting, not fully understood, worthy of a boy's wonder and solemn respect. Dr. Sax. the hawk-faced, silent, evil-battling spook whom Jack Duluoz invents (and then sees, fearfully, in every dark doorway), gets from place to place by grooking. Dr. Sax plays poker incessantly, has a high, fiendish laugh ("Mwee hee ha ha ha"). And when his stalking of the evil Great World Snake makes it necessary, he pulls a rubber boat out of his slouch hat, pumps it up and paddles across the Merrimack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grooking in Lowell | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Time Walked, by Vera Panova. An apolitical but warmly Russian account of the tides in the life of a six-year-old boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan. The old-reform-school tie flashily worn by an unreformed and gifted Irish writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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