Word: lads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early decades of this century. A few of these, like The Divorce, relate the memories of a young boy whose rabbi father dispenses spiritual and practical advice to the teeming neighborhood around Krochmalna Street. Simply paying attention to the people who come to the apartment for help trains the lad to become a writer: "I was interested in people's talk -- their expressions, their excuses for wrong deeds, and how they twisted things to suit themselves." And he or someone very like him appears in other Warsaw stories as an apprentice author, hanging around the Yiddish Writers' Club, looking...
...Kern's day who scrambled to success out of tenements on Manhattan's Lower East Side, he was born in a comfortable midtown apartment, the son of a German-Jewish stabler. Young Jerry would never be the businessman his father hoped for. Sent out to purchase two pianos, the lad returned with 200. But he must have known his future would have more to do with sitting at pianos than haggling over them. He spent his 17th birthday attending a community-theater premiere of his own musical, a parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin. By the time...
...Larch says this to Homer Wells, a young man born at the orphanage whose various sojourns with foster families have all ended in failure. Since Homer seems destined to stay in St. Cloud's, Larch urges him to "be of use," and the lad complies. He begins by taking over the nightly readings to the younger children; those in the boys' wing hear David Copperfield or Great Expectations, and the girls get Jane Eyre. The idea of featuring great novels about orphans is Dr. Larch's: "What in hell else would you read to an orphan?" Homer's duties gradually...
...foggy lowlands, wearing their bright costumes, they made a visual feast. Now and again you would catch sight of a peach-clad boy on an Appaloosa cutting through the Chinese tallow trees, or a scarlet lad standing on his saddle, dancing on a bay. Five young women gotten up as golden harlots were included in the tableau as an easy taunting symbol for the youths: do not touch, even if you are not yourself...
Castleton is indeed unsettled by the shrieking, weeping and effusively loving behavior of this weird child. "Shut up, darling," he pleads during one attempt to comfort the little lad, who is, Castleton decides, "Pure Gold and all that, but inconceivably maddening." Worse, the new husband begins to take the true measure of his wife, who not only treats her servants as if feudalism still reigned and slavery had never been abolished but who hectors her semi-invalid son unmercifully: "Drink your porto and try and get a little color in your face for a change." She will make...