Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...S.L.A.'s first communique, delivered by mail to an FM radio station in Berkeley, also contained a tape cassette on which Patricia had recorded a message to her parents beginning, "Mom, Dad...
...only to sight a Boy Scout to reach for his chalks-one reason why Artist Norman Rockwell was voted one of America's ten outstanding fathers in 1943. But his youngest son Peter, now 37 and a sculptor living in Rome, remembers Dad differently. "Sometimes it was very frustrating to be a subject and to be seen through his eyes and not in the way I thought I was," he explains. Now Peter has countered with a sculpture of Rockwell pere that would never make the cover of the Saturday Evening Post: a bronze head with a gaping hole...
Protect the players, Mr. Watson, hell--try to imagine, if you will, the following scenario: Early yesterday evening in Wigglesworth Hall a freshman named John made his weekly call home to Topeka. "Hi Mom, Hi Dad, boy have I got a lot to tell you. For openers, I just got out of the hospital and I don't have a left ear anymore...
...Dad and I rode to Legion Field that Saturday on a chartered bus, since no mortal could have braved the flood of football traffic that always took over downtown Birmingham on Auburn-Alabama day. Our fellow travellers were a wild assortment of banner-waving, horn-blowing, bourbon-swigging Alabama fans. Along the way, the men had cursing battles, sang obscene fight songs, and bet themselves into insolvency over the outcome of the game...
...this had been 1964, my Dad and I would have spent the next week talking about the brilliant plays, the near-interceptions that might have changed the outcome, the necking couple and the Bear. The whole town would have had a hangover--more spiritual than physical. Even my sixth grade teacher, who always insisted over our protests that Birmingham was more famous for steel than for football, would have allowed us to write our Friday essays on the Auburn-Alabama game--if we had been lucky enough to attend. The final gun would not have been...