Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many towns see parades like the one the "Town of Southie" enjoyed under sunny skies and amid melting mounds of snow. The marchers themselves--the South Boston VFW Post, Boy Scouts, the parish Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Youth Organization, and even the Harvard University Band--were amateurish compared to those who appear in the parades of most large cities, but this show was no Pasadena spectacular intended for viewed from a cordoned-off curbside...
HOLLYWOOD OF THE 1930s is a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty, and Monroe Stahr, boy wonder, is at her service. Stahr's business is making pictures, transmuting the dreams of Depression-deadened America into vendable celluloid. His is an Horatio Alger story with an F. Scott Fitzgerald twist, a saga of material success rooted in romantic illusion. For a while, Stahr can have his cake and sell it too; but the crisis comes when he tries to shape his own life in the image of the movies by snatching happiness from an ill-fated love affair. For Fitzgerald, success...
...tell you that that chicken was as live as a cow in heat. If Sidorsky can't tell the difference between a rubber chicken and a real one maybe he better come out here to the country for a few days; we would be happy to teach a city boy like him the facts of life. Michael Ullmann '80 Cornell University
...high on my reading list but they should be free to shape their own humor without apology to anybody. And anyway the militants among black students ought to take the massive problems of blacks more seriously than to waste sweat and energy over a silly cartoon of black boy shining John Harvard's shoes. I am surprised that their leader, Tony Chase, has lost perspective in these matters...
...fiction and his faith that the English language can still make exciting sense of the world. Yet a recitation of the novel's bare bones may give the reader the impression that he has seen this book many times before. Jed Tewksbury is a poor white boy from Dugton, Ala. His daddy is the dashing county drunk who falls down and kills himself " while urinating on his mule. Jed's mother is the pone of the earth. She supports her fatherless boy by working in a cannery. She makes sure he has clean shirts and does his homework...