Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take a look at Al Vellucci. He grins as a grade school drill team from East Cambridge comes to have its picture taken with the City Council. Veteran observers ask him if the children's parents are good for 50 or 60 "number ones." Al's smile broadens into an angelic beam--it's all part of the game of Cambridge politics...
Buckley Sr. subjected his children to a rigorous, if haphazard education. Unimpressed by the schools as he moved from Venezuela to France to England and back to the U.S. (Sharon, Conn., where Mrs. Buckley Sr. still lives), he stressed education at home. Not the kind of businessman who sneered at the liberal arts, he hired tutors in dance, architecture, painting, herb gardening, and one who was expert at building boats inside bottles. "We thought we had tried about everything," recalls Bill, "and in would come yet another professor." All the children were trilingual, or at least bilingual. Bill learned...
This distrust he successfully communicated to his ten children, not one of whom ever deviated from the conservative faith of the father or from his staunch Roman Catholicism. "Perhaps the reason we did not rebel," thinks Buckley, "is that Father was a dissenter all his life. Had he been an establishmentarian, there might have been a greater impulse to rebel." In the influence that he exercised over his brood, until his death in 1958 at 77, Buckley Sr. bore considerable resemblance to that other patriarch of Irish descent, Joseph P. Kennedy. But beyond the Irishness, the Buckleys...
...lack of usual Sunday formality, show up in everything from bathing suits to pajamas. The church lots are invariably packed with cars carrying rooftop boats, surfboards, golf clubs and picnic hampers. But the convenience of drive-in services also attracts the sick and disabled, parents with small children who cannot be left home alone, celebrities trying to shun crowds, and many unchurched Christians who just like to meditate by themselves...
...study, the B.L.S. created a family of four: a 38-year-old employed husband, his wife and their two children, eight and 13. The bureau then worked out a budget for them, based on what it costs to live "moderately" in some 40 U.S. cities. In the high-priced area of New York-Northeastern New Jersey, for example, it amounted to $10,195 annually, against $5,970 seven years ago. On a national average, the budget for B.L.S.'s urban family of four increased from $6,098 in 1959 to $9,191 in 1966. Trouble is, in 1959 B.L.S...