Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a study of Paul's travels, for example, could draw on the familiarity of a world geography course. Personal relations are often studied through "role-playing" typical situations, and Maryland eighth-graders use modern language to act out Biblical stories such as the Prodigal Son ("Look, Dad, I'm leaving home"). Teachers regularly use film strips, cartoons, flannel boards, charades-even magic tricks. The Methodists are featuring Patty Duke in a new film series that will be shown in Sunday schools...
Jaybird Naked. Of course JC has been warned about iniquity. "The danger of moral cancer, as Dad calls it, is ever present," he explains. But could Dad have prepared him for Kitten's un-American attack on television? She dismisses a global panel discussion that JC is ungallantly watching as "dum rockit rackit." When a western comes on, she screams "Whiteman shootin . . . mothahless madass boom boomin crap." Then, jaybird naked, she picks up the offending set bodily and tries to toss it out the narrow window. She fails. "Yeah! Gee-zuz! Ain nothin else...
...dirt in this one is really pretty yeasty. Small-town middle-aged Massachusetts family of Life With Father dad, harried mom, newly-wed daughter, boobish son-in-law. Nothing too new there, admittedly, but then mom gets pregnant. And dad gets the gags. Mem: Aren't you excited? happy? [or words to that effect] Doesn't it remind you of a poem? Dad (de-spondently): I shot an arrow into...
...unbelievable when you think very hard about it), but he is a man of enough professional acumen to have signed up one of the best directors in the business, George Abbott, who for his part has had enough sense to sin up a perfect cast: Paul Ford (dad), Maureen O'Sullivan (mom), and Orson Bean (son-in-law). Do you follow...
...Hartford family fief in Wyckoff. N.J. Caught unaware as the couple hurried off on their honeymoon, Manhattan papers let on that the new Mrs. Hartford was a coal miner's daughter, but after five days in Vermont she returned to set those "silly stories'' straight. "My dad is an accountant, not a coal miner.'' she said, "and I was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.'' She did indeed live in Pennsylvania for a while, but it was in upper-crust Bucks County, with her divorced mother and stepfather. "He's an architect." College? Well...