Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this develops an hour of television drama that few viewers will have trouble identifying with, though its story is far from the lives of the nation's more privileged. There are the familiar dilemmas of childhood (stealing, lying, response to bullying), the familiar authority figures (mother, adult store owners, schoolteacher) and familiar emotions (fear, love, sorrow...
...film almost entirely narrated by Miller, follows him through his early years, from his childhood in Brooklyn to his blissful exile in Paris. The past is recreated through Miller's readings from his autobiographical works, the reminiscing of Miller and his friends old photographs and manuscripts, and through brilliant color shots of the Paris that Miller knew. The camera's eye focuses on the street life of Paris that Miller knew so intimately-the cafes and whorehouses, the rooftops and benches, the stores and moviehouses, the colors of the fruits and bowers. The Paris street people-the vagabonds drunkards...
...happened. It is not a figure of speech." The "old ones," he adds, responded to the harshness of their life by taking an almost insane pride in their work. "A straight furrow was all a man was left with." Thompson is typical of his generation. He starved during a childhood spent gleaning beans and wheat and picking up road-mending stones from the fields-at 50? for 24 bushels. He witnessed bloody horror as a machine gunner in World War I. Afterward, he was one of a few who helped organize a farm workers' union when the bad times...
...could be further from effete snobbery than Chet Huntley. Deeply -almost lyrically-affected by his childhood in Montana, he is quite simply puzzled and troubled about America. When he was a child in the West, he says, "Our idealisms were be kind to your neighbor. You respected your father and your mother, you exercised thrift and you saved-you saved for a rainy day." Today, "we really don't know ourselves. We haven't had time in the past 60 years to stop and get acquainted with ourselves. Our youngsters have idealisms which are somewhat grander in proportion...
...visiting his home town with his wife and children examines his bizarre behavior at a drugstore (a childhood hangout). "It seemed to him now that he had gone to the drugstore on purpose that morning. . . . It had been intended to satisfy some passing and unnamed need of his, but the adventure had cut too deep in his memory, and into what was more than mere memory . . . cut beyond all the good sense and reasonableness that made life seem worthwhile-or even tolerable." Matt finds his dark face-his hostile violent face-"a monstrous obtrusion on the relatively bright scene that...