Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Krantz sure knows how to dash a childhood dream. He is editor of The Jobs Rated Almanac (World Almanac; $14.95), a new book ranking 250 professions by such criteria as salary, security, stress, outlook and work conditions. Krantz downgrades jobs that look best to kids, putting garbage collector (No. 226) ahead of dancer (240), football player (241) and cowboy (242). Last on the list: migrant farm worker (250). At No. 1 is a job that few children even know about: actuary...
Helms tells a story from his childhood. "About the only licking I remember my father giving me was when he overheard me calling a little black boy with whom I was playing a 'nigger.' He told me, 'It wasn't anything you did that made you white, wasn't anything he did that made him black,' and I was never to use that word again." It was no defense, said Helms, that the boy had called him a "white cracker...
...similarities still outweigh the differences. The two have many of the same goals in life, and here at Harvard both played on the men's varsity basketball team during the winter. They competed at the same games in childhood and always dressed alike--although not by choice...
Philby, born Harold Adrian Russell, was the only son of St. John Philby, a British civil servant who sided with the colonies rather than the empire and became an adviser to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Harold was born in India, and in childhood acquired the lasting nickname of Kim, the courageous boy spy in Rudyard Kipling's tale. He attended his father's schools, Westminster and Cambridge. Philby met Burgess, Maclean and Blunt at Cambridge but insisted that they were not recruited there. In Vienna, where he lived after graduation, he joined a Communist cell and was assigned...
...prisoners' civil behavior seems all the more surprising when they begin to talk about their backgrounds. Darby recalls one tutee describing a childhood of gang violence. "For him this was a blow-off prison. He said he'd get into a fight just like that, shove a pencil in someone's eye," Darby says...