Tag: memoirs
member name: Joseph Ritz
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January 04, 2008 07:39 PM EST --
Those who think of the 1950s as dull and nearly sexless never lived through that tumultuous era. Those of us who were young then, remember a decade crammed with excitement, change, conflict . . .
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June 04, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
I was long grown up before the arrival of today’s Service Economy, a term which is like calling crop harvesting a country vacation.
When I was a child, we had pleasant-voiced women employed to help . . .
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November 19, 2006 11:56 PM EST --
As the 21st century begins to run on swift feet, things of the last century, cars, computers, cell phones, fashions are increasingly thought of as old.
Old so soon. I am old and remember many Modern Ages. . . .
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December 15, 2006 11:39 AM EST --
Most children are stuck with the parents they have. Many children from time to time hope and believe they are adopted. But for them it is just wishful . . .
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January 24, 2008 09:20 PM EST --
I had prepared a couple of lines of patter I was going to say at my 50th high school reunion.
Standing in front of my fellow graduates and their wives and husbands, microphone in hand, I planned to . . .
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March 20, 2007 06:20 PM EDT --
Jeremiah O’Sullivan was dean of Marquette’s College of Journalism in the 1950s, when I was a student there. All those who studied under him and the faculty members called him simply, “the . . .
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October 05, 2007 08:44 PM EDT --
We didn’t have classes in sex education when I attended a Catholic high school in the 1950s. We learned about it from more knowledgeable boys. Not only was there no sex education, there was . . .
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