Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teach students how to write--in fact, he says he "hadn't seen the inside of a classroom between 1953 and last year." But three of his five sons went to Harvard--Timothy '84, Ted '86, and Matthew '90--and when Ted was a sophomore, he told his dad that he enrolled in a writing course taught by an actual writer...
...wasn't an easy job, but the weather was good. Sis and I positioned ourselves outside the ranch in the morning to grab the papers as soon as they were delivered. Dad went up the satellite tower at UCSB with a radio transmitter to scatter the airwaves so no news broadcasts could make it over there. And Mom cruised the hills in a jeep in case that rascal Col. North were trying to sneak in to brief the President. The important thing was that President Reagan not hear anything about this nasty Iran-Nicaragua business...
...Aided by his older brother, he regularly flooded the backyard to create swamps. Once, for a change of pace, the Larson boys hauled sand into the basement and built a miniature Mojave complete with horned toads. Throughout it all, Larson's parents remained remarkably serene, even that day when Dad, a car salesman, came home and found his son's 8-ft. boa constrictor curled up in the sewing machine...
...them up from friends or "on their own," according to a 1985 Planned Parenthood poll, while only a third get their information from parents or school. Pornography is part of the on-their- own category, with the soft-core pages of Penthouse sometimes supplemented by an X-rated videocassette Dad left lying around. The increasingly unfettered use of sex as a come-on in the mass media is a new and unsettling factor, overwhelming the young in stimulation -- soap operas, cable television, blatantly erotic ads for Obsession perfume. But apart from saying "watch" or "buy," these sensations offer no guiding...
Michael Cooperson '87 says his childhood was "just not normal. My Mom sang Greek hymns in the kitchen. At one point my Dad went around speaking Yiddish to everyone, even though we couldn't understand...