Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liza Minnelli Special last week, Newman sums up middle-age with painful accuracy: "Some nights we'll go out dancin'/ If I am not too tired/ And some nights we'll sit romancin'/ Watchin' the Late Show by the fire." In So Long Dad, he captures the turned-around relationship of a grown son and his father: "Come and see us, Papa, when you can/There'll always be a place for my ol' man/Just drop by when it's convenient to/Be sure and call before you do." The nephew of Hollywood Composer...
...Call to Dad On election night, Heath arrived early at the local Tory headquarters in his constituency of Bexley, in Kent. Shortly after 6, he began placing phone calls to Tory election agents around the coun- try. As he sipped his tea and spoke qui etly on the phone, some of the half a dozen friends in the room noticed Heath's eyes take on a sudden light...
...John Updike, 38, or with a relatively narrow range of human experience, as is true of Philip Roth, 37. There is no Faulkner, no Hemingway, no Fitzgerald, no O'Neill in our lost generation. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test may well be our Great Gatsby, and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad our Desire Under the Elms...
...books. When Publisher Bennett Cerf of Random House took a lady visitor to meet his son, Editor Christopher Cerf, he sauntered unannounced into Christopher's office to find Hoffman slouched shirtless at the desk, scribbling away. "That's not my son!" exclaimed Cerf hastily. Said Hoffman, "Hi, Dad...
...Perhaps if every kid eligible to die in Southeast Asia put the heat on good ol' Mom and Dad, the middle-aged block of ice could be thawed a little. Even though Abraham was determined to carry out God's command and knife his own son to death, I don't think most parents would share the same degree of devotion. The concept of Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public telling their son to go risk his life in a war situation (a situation few parents could adequately explain) because Nixon says so seems absurd...