Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Founder of the Rainbow Coalition and a close personal friend of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, King grew up in the South End, the only racially integrated neighborhood in Boston. His political career, fueled by childhood memories of racial harmony, included a 10-year spell as a state representative--as well as his run for Congress and two campaigns for mayor of Boston...
...with actress Katharine Balfour, whom, says Goulden, he promised to marry but eventually abandoned. Still, Fit to Print is at times as sympathetic as it is damning. Goulden clearly shares many of Rosenthal's conservative political views, and the author provides a sensitive account of the editor's painful childhood, during which Rosenthal lost his father and three sisters to accident and illness and came perilously close to being crippled himself. Above all, Rosenthal is portrayed as profoundly insecure, a man who when casually asked by a stranger whether he was "an editor" at the Times, angrily snapped...
...three have spent many years searching for unifying principles in the patterns of information that surround us. For Fredkin, the lifelong rationalist, the universe itself is the vast expression of many iterations of simple but powerful ordering rules. Wilson, filled since childhood with a love for the natural world, has investigated how communication permits the evolution of complex animal societies, bound together by the exchange of information. Boulding's deep religious convictions and pacifism have led him to find a way for nations to someday interact without violence, based on networks of shared values and mutual interests...
Immediately we were thrust back into memories of our childhood--every step we took seemed to bring us further back, to fall days of Halloween expectation and Thanksgiving pageants. We bought candycorn, priced pumpkins and tried to remember the third line of Longfellow's famous poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere...
...readily acknowledged that they learned to behave similarly. Dan Janeck, 25, of San Diego, remembers feeling like an adult by age seven: "I was responsible, commitment-oriented. My relatives were older. Although I was a child, I had an adult view that other kids were going through their childhoods." Others, too, find it difficult to connect with peers. "Even in college, at beer parties, I would have the attitude of a 54-year-old," says Lawer. "When a child says, 'Mommy, Mommy, guess what just happened,' there is a difference in the response of a 22-year...