Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps it was inevitable. Mum and Dad separated when she was ten; the child was given her choice of parent to live with. At that age, girls are bonkers about their fathers; she and Conner enjoyed what she recalls as "a parody of marriage." Together they went to concerts, studied languages, played cello and piano duets. At 15, Penelope passed Oxford's matriculation exams, but was too young to be admitted. She tried a year at Bennington. There the peculiar Americans informed her that she possessed an Einsteinian...
...when his father Ernie Tomasso, an experienced clarinetist, started the boy on the piano. "He could play flattened ninth chords before he even knew what they were," says the proud father. A year later Enrico heard Satchmo on records and that was the end of the piano. Recalls Enrico: "Dad bought me a trumpet. Then he brought in a teacher. Most people think you blow ordinary when you blow a trumpet. You don't. You have to put your lips together and make a sound like bluebottle flies buzzing on the window." Breath control exercises came next-"lying...
...killed in a crossfire just after he administered the last rites to a man he thought was dying; the man survived to tell the story. On a Belfast street a young man, one of 13 children of an unemployed laborer, wept uncontrollably as he told his sister: "They say Dad's dead; they say he's in the morgue...
...hours." Pound was often severe with Mary. When she was still quite small, he drafted an elaborate table of "Laws for Maria." Item: "If she suffers, it is her own fault for not understanding the universe." But on the whole, he was a really nice if distant dad. He bought the child a small flock of sheep, and became her silent partner in a tiny bee-raising business; many of these episodes, mentioned obscurely in The Cantos, are here explained in full. In Venice he walked her all over town and fed her gooey Italian goodies. And one night, after...
...workingwomen is caused at least as much by their desire for respect as for cold cash. If the trend to working mothers seems uncaring and unwise, defenders of it point out that a second paycheck often allows fathers to spend more time with their children. Not only is Dad freed of some pressure to work overtime and struggle for promotion, but he also feels an obligation to get home and help Mother with the chores...