Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, mobilizes college humor and surrealistic props to launch a bizarre offensive against poor Mom. As a girl with a yen for Mama's boy, Barbara Harris ranges from clowning grotesquerie to candied simpering to erotic voracity, with unflawed skill...
...Confused and exhausted, Thorn developed insomnia and a chronic sore throat. At length, he dropped out of school for a semester-for fear of getting a C on his record. "I was so sick mentally," he recalls, "that I thought I was sick physically. Finally I called Dad and told him to come get me. I just sat and stared out the window all the way home...
Most Reed students come from California, followed by Oregon, Washington and New York. The universal lure is Reed's blend of social and academic freedom. "Dad dreamed of Caltech," says one boy from Los Angeles. "I didn't want to leave out the humanities, and Portland is a convenient 1,000 miles from home." The dominance of outsiders is one of Reed's chief problems with Portland. Harvard-trained President Richard H. Sullivan on the one hand exults in his students' hot loyalty to "the Reed community," and on the other laments their disdain for Portland...
Lombardi worked days as an insurance investigator, studied nights at Fordham Law ("because my Dad wanted it"), played weekend football for a minor-league pro team that called itself the Brooklyn Eagles. In 1939, he took his first coaching job - as an assistant football coach at tiny (600 students) St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, NJ. His HALFBACK HORNUNG...
...Miss Vogel, who play Mrs. Frail, a fashionable lady of little virtue and less money, and Miss Prue, Angelica's country cousin. The one is bright and fatigued; and the other, buxom and spirited, sports a North Country accent that would warm the cold heart of Albert Ramsbottom's dad...