Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awards, including a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of fission. But he always accepted such honors with characteristic humility. Visiting an atomic reactor or nuclear power station, he would shrug modestly: "It has all been the work of others." In a soon-to-be-published 300-page memoir, he brushed off his historic work in fewer than five pages. Last week, at the age of 89, the father of fission died peacefully in his beloved Göttingen...
...when Belle Boyd was 19, she was captured and imprisoned in Washington, D.C., as a Confederate spy. Her memoir records the following dialogue with the prison's superintendent...
...even a vastly romantic 19-year-old girl, could have uttered the bombastic speeches credited to her by the memoir. But the book was written in 1865, only two years after Belle was released from prison, by a ghost named George A. H. Sala. His style is implacably flossy; a hole in a prison wall, through which Belle passed notes, is referred to as a "mural disturbance...
...through the Red Sea, rounded the tip of Africa, and were caught by a fierce ocean storm. Driven into the South Equatorial Current, one of the ships must have been swept across the Atlantic to the coast of Brazil. And there the hardy band of voyagers left their historic memoir...
Still another totally recalled English boyhood? One more sensitive child of privilege weaning himself from old Nanny and stumbling gamely onto the fields of Eton? Not at all. V.S. (for Victor Sawdon) Pritchett's brilliantly belligerent account of his first 20 years is about as far as a memoir can get from the usual look-back-in-languor...