Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really matter what happens. I actually haven't been able to comprehend the title, the play-offs, or anything else associated with the Phillies' victory. That's a whole different mentality. You see, we've got this kid Lersch coming up from the Oklahoma '89ers, and Rick Bosetti--boy can he throw. Maybe we'll get 'em next year...
Davis, who came to Harvard from Downing, Idaho, and spent his mission in Paraguay and Uruguay, even tried hitchhiking. He found it easy to contact potential converts that way because drivers were usually interested in why an American boy in suit and tie was hitchhiking on South American roads. That gave him a natural chance to explain the purpose of his mission, and the Mormon doctrine...
Typically Swedish. Many Swedes were turned off by the cold, urbane Palme, who often comes across as overbearingly arrogant. By contrast, Fälldin exuded an unthreatening sincerity. A pipe-smoking country boy who still raises sheep, cuts timber and grows oats and corn on his 668-acre farm, the new Prime Minister mixes easily with all kinds of people and speaks to them in simple language about their problems. Admitted an envious Social Democratic politician: "Fälldin is like your next-door neighbor. He's what people think of as typically Swedish. He's a clever...
After it was all over, the young reporter got a raise (from $20 to $25 a week), married and settled down. Paradoxically, somewhere in the eye of the storm the college boy had found what he was looking for. Now, four decades later, in his scrupulous recording of chaos, Allen has at last connected literature and life, honoring the grim truths of dislocation on which all order must be predicated...
...revolting against Boston did not inspire Crosby to genuine artistic creation, at least it made him a fascinating and enigmatic figure. Unfortunately, Wolff does little more than establish this. He fails to illuminate the mechanism of Harry's transformation from a conventional boy to a man famous for his quirks. He offers few clues to the sources of Harry's twin obsessions, death and literature. In fact, Black Sun is often nothing more than an inventory of Harry's peculiarities; Wolff's writing is uninformed by any consistent sense of what made Crosby what he was. It may be interesting...