Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agnew described the participants in the Moratorium as "thousands of well-motivated young people, conditioned since childhood to respond to great emotional appeals...
This literary eruption, however, is relatively recent. "My childhood was more political than literary," says Lady Antonia. Her father was lecturing on politics and economics at Oxford, and her mother often joined him in active campaigning. "Books were considered the thing in our family even then, but everybody went off and made speeches about them instead of writing them." Except for Antonia. She wrote poems and plays ("At the age of eight, I thought it was perfectly easy to do anything that Shakespeare had done") and developed a lifelong passion for history and biography. "I had a childhood identification with...
DAYTOP offers a surrogate family. The cast refers to itself as brothers and sisters. They became heroin addicts because childhood didn't work out, and now is their chance to do it over and do it right. "No, I never told my father I loved him," Augie confesses. "No, it wasn't because I was afraid he'd think I was a homosexual...
...incredibility of his language. He is a not-so-ancient mariner of kitsch, whose voyages seem mostly to have been out of the sovereign state of innocence via the borscht circuit. He re-enacts them repeatedly under assumed names in this, his first collection, emerging from a Jewish childhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, mournful yet wide-eyed, trying to gain his fortune and lose his virginity without missing a single opening...
...WILD, RUN FREE. Parents who think that most matinee movies more often seem to be made by children than for them will be pleasantly surprised by this subtle, low-keyed allegory of childhood's end about an autistic English boy (Mark Lester) and an almost magical white colt...