Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crucialfact is that the famous epigraph to The Sun AlsoRises--Stein's "You are all a Lost Generation"--isneither pretentious nor empty: for Hemingway andfor many of his contemporaries, the assertionthrough life and through writing of theunflinching code of sportsmen’s honor was not asilly return to childhood but a search for a codeof behavior that meant something in a post-Warworld where the land of childhood was far away andthe doctrines of established morality hadshattered...
McMahon spoke candidly on subjects ranging from the way his "performers" behave in the ring to his competition with Ted Turner to his unhappy childhood in North Carolina...
...QUINCY house and the Head teaching fellow for Foreign Cultures 56, "Jewish Life in Eastern Europe." In a former life, however, Cammy starred in the 80s Nickelodeon hit "You Can't Do That on Television." In the study of his New Quincy penthouse suite, Cammy divulged wisdom on childhood fame and the ingredients of green slime...
...most difficult hurdles for a memoirist. Gail Hall Howard, 52, writes memoirs and teaches memoir writing at Connecticut's University of Bridgeport. "There isn't just one version of the truth," she maintains. "We remember certain things in different ways, and our understanding changes over time." Everyone sees childhood through grownup eyes. The memoirist's task is to bring back the reality of the child's view filtered through adult perceptions and make that truth into a compelling story...
...which was confusing: 'Don't send me there, can't you see his knight? Send him, we can afford to lose him'"). As Rowling puts it, "If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood." The Wizard of Oz just may have to make a little space on the shelf for the wizards of Hogwarts...