Word: childhoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hidden Teammates. The sound of the coyote's cry at night is the common denominator of Southwest experience. It is one of the things that adults remember of a ranch house childhood; when heard again in age it summons up the whole complex of dry weather, sun-baked corrals, rock ranch houses, Mexicans, road runners, cattle, rattlesnakes, water tanks, windmills and lonely country. Says Dobie: it is an integral part of the life of the Southwest, which a New Mexico cowboy called the "land that seemed to be grieving over something-a kind of sadness, loneliness in a deathly...
Suprugov has forced his first wife to have an abortion for sheer terror at the thought of the fuss a child would make. In his abnormal ache for sympathy, he falsifies his dead mother as an out-all-night card player in order to make his childhood sound tragic. He flies into a rage when he is called from dinner to attend a wounded woman who is having a premature baby. And yet the author has regarded Suprugov so compassionately that the reader may feel compassion for the wretch...
...conventions and laws for ten years I'll know we have accomplished something." Surgeon Meany is more optimistic about a lasting happy ending: "John was an apt case for psychological surgery. His troubles started between the ages of twelve and 15, when he passed the point of childhood anonymity, before which kids don't care much about appearances. He's holding a job and feels like a part of society...
...newspapers lying on a small radio, hung a naked light bulb. In the adjoining room stood a metal bed, a lavender-colored wardrobe, a few nondescript wooden chairs. "My parents were farmers," Vargas began. "Now that I am an old man, it is good to be back in my childhood scenes...
...have when they are not caught in the glare of klieglights or an adult eye. The result is a subtle, absorbing drama of natural child behavior. A brilliant tour de force as entertainment, Idol could also be a useful object lesson on how to restore he Hollywood child to childhood...