Word: lad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tune of When I Was a Lad...
...other ways. The setting is Ireland, scene of the author's most exuberant and successful prose. Reginald Darcy Thormond Dancer Kildare is not another Sebastian Dangerfield, the irrepressible Ginger Man, but one of Donleavy's sensitive young souls. His mother dies when Darcy is young and the lad inherits Andromeda Park, a venerable estate that has seen better days and will see worse. Darcy's absentee father lunges at the inheritance, making his son's life miserable. Sure and it is a long, crowded road that Darcy must travel before his story ends...
...name only after a medical fluke-the sudden occurrence of nodules on his vocal cords-caused him to lose his voice just before his first scheduled radio network show in 1931. When the voice came back, it had, thanks to the nodules, what Crosby called "the effect of a lad with his voice changing singing into a rain barrel...
...Ribicoff committee was not letting up on Lance. It released an affidavit from Michael Patriarca, a low-level attorney on the staff of the Comptroller of the Currency, which belatedly contradicted assertions by Lance that he lad never asked anyone in the Comptroller's office to lift sanctions against the Calhoun bank so his record would be cleaner as he faced confirmation hearings. Patriarca claimed that last Nov. 22 Lance had asked Donald Tarleton, the Atlanta regional director for the Comptroller, to do just that. (Tarleton had also denied any such overture by Lance.) Clearly, the assault on Lance...
...Widower's Son sets up all the obstacles faced by a working-class lad in the 1930s but concentrates on another: the baffle that prevents people from understanding themselves. Left motherless at age seven, William Scorton is raised by his father, a veteran artilleryman who has used the military to escape from the coal mines of his youth. Equating discipline with love, the father trains his young son to become an artillery gunner; when he takes William to visit his mother's grave, he carts along a compass so that they can make a field...