Word: lad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telephone company finally had to give him a new, unlisted phone number; incoming calls were paralyzing the local switchboard. In Manhattan, Brody rented an office on Broadway as a clearinghouse for his largesse. Ed Sullivan introduced him on television as "the wonderfully generous Michael James Brody," and the lad loosely strummed his guitar and sang a Bob Dylan song...
...Reivers is a raucous, good-natured ode to the end of innocence -a kind of motorized Huckleberry Finn. William Faulkner's original novel spun a mellow tale about an eleven-year-old lad named Lucius McCaslin and his wild-eyed adventures on a trip to Memphis in 1905. Screenwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., having done previous Faulkner adaptations in The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, by this time know the Yoknapatawpha territory more than passing well. Their sharp and reverent screenplay, featuring a felicitous narration by Burgess Meredith, helps make The Reivers...