Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, dull camerawork and cliched setting leave room for interesting subplots. We see Ben struggling to reestablish his identity after an injury forces his premature retirement from a promising baseball career. And we see Kate's dad and Ben's mother finding happiness together in their September years while their children founder about looking to become "connected...
...between her fingers as she speaks. "We were really poor then. Sounds funny to say it. We didn't know it then. But sitting at Harvard, surrounded by all this affluence, you realize no one here thinks of eating road kills. But that is what we ate. And my dad would go out and shoot squirrels. Now I walk around and see also those fat squirrels scampering about and I think hmmm," she says, cocking her head and peering at an imaginary squirrel...
...could be punishing to the people he knew, and Simon gives more than a few examples. Douglas' relationships with his law clerks were, as one put it, like those between master and slaves. He was named Father of the Year in 1950, but his offspring knew better: "Dad was scary," recalls Son William. Even in robes, Douglas had his failings. Simon says that the great civil libertarian was not truly a hero in the Rosenberg spy case because his last minute effort to delay their executions came only after his five votes not to hear their appeals. Sadly, even...
...School, the Law School, the Dental School, and from all corners of the earth: Malaysai, Holland, England, U.S.A., West Germany, Hong Kong, Pakistan, India, and Ghana. How many of you ever had an expos class with a quorum like that? (This is what it's all about, mom and dad...
...years, the question that has dogged the women's movement has been "But who will raise the children?" The answer from feminists: both parents. More Dad and less Mom, they say, would result in greater equality, not only for parents but also for the next generation. This is fine in theory, but the actual how-to-do-it has remained a puzzle. Now the first real guide to nonsexist child raising has appeared: Letty Cottin Pogrebin's innovative and exhaustive Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80's (McGraw-Hill; $15.95). Even the eminent...