Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that she was once praised as a realist, and that so joyous a literary scalper as Henry Louis Mencken cheered her on and gave her houseroom in his American Mercury. The fact is, Author Suckow has not changed at all, but life has. The Iowa that was her childhood home is still the source of her fictional truth. In The John Wood Case, her first book in seven years, the period is Teddy Roosevelt's time, and the theme is the morality of that...
...Childhood, at any rate, is alien to whatever divides and envenoms mankind. In this slender, sensitively wrought novel, Vera Panova has skillfully mirrored the child's healing universality...
Born in Trieste, De Henriquez got his passion from childhood musings over the battle souvenirs of his Portuguese ancestors, who for 900 years had fought in many European armies (two were Austrian field marshals). Too young for World War I, De Henriquez fascinatedly watched the bombardment of Trieste from his roof while others cowered in cellars, at war's end begged and bought heaps of surplus materiel...
...Sulfonylureas are strictly for the stable diabetic whose disease has become evident in middle life. They are not for the unpredictable up-and-down group that includes nearly all whose disease began in childhood. Young people, wrongly treated by inexpert physicians, have suffered severely as a result...
When it comes to the why rather than the how of his hero-villain, fledgling Novelist Stone is content with a pat childhood trauma. His portrait of a demagogue is colorful but not colorfast: character blurs into caricature, sentiment into soap opera, speech into speeches. But whatever his novel's shortcomings, Author Stone will doubtless enjoy his forthcoming reign as the undergraduate lion of Harvard Yard...