Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when mother dies, they do not tell anybody, but just quietly bury her in the back garden and carry on for a year or more as if nothing had happened. Well, nothing much. Gerty is bad, and they punish her and she dies, and they bury her too. Then Dad turns up. They had never seen him before. He thinks they are "a ripe bunch of little bastards," but buys them treats until he gets fed up and wants to pack them "into the bleeding orphanage." So Hubert, the most responsible of the little ones, conks him on the head...
...play's North of England family relies on the triple diversions of the unblessed poor: booze, bickering and sex. Grandpa belts the brandy. Mum and Dad fight whenever Dad isn't swiving a neighbor lady, and Mum isn't being hauled off to the cooler for disorderly conduct. Their son is an ex-pug, his friend is a pimp, and so it goes. Unfortunately, the play does not go-either toward social comment or domestic disaster, or toward that uncommon probing of the commonplace, the drab and the degraded that unveils an expanse of spirit...
...gave him transfusions one right after another. So many transfusions washed out the body's calcium balance, and we gave him injections of calcium. We gave him standard treatment for shock all night." Suddenly Fred started to recover. And as consciousness returned, his first words were: "If Dad had been here, this wouldn't have happened." At home, Fred now gets two units of plasma a day. But as he continues to improve, that dose will be lowered. The doctors at Baylor plan to keep close watch over him, but now they are much more concerned with trying...
Added to the staff of the Moreland Commission, reappraising state liquor laws in the wake of New York's recent licensing scandals: John M. Dewey, 27, Harvard Law '62, youngest son of former Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Will he follow in Dad's racket-busting footsteps to a political career? "Of course, I have thought about it, but I have no interest in politics right...
...read very good, Dad. And besides, I'd like to give her the thing she likes best...