Word: dads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another pleasant thing in the book is the recorded conversation of Miller's children ("You were a thief, weren't you, Dad?" "Well, yes and no. I was a horse thief"). And it should be recorded that the old scourge of the Left Bank weeps when he misses his children and hides marbles lest they swallow them...
...been injured in an automobile accident near Fayetteville. But Johnny was reported not badly hurt, so the family attended Max's funeral, then flew to Fayetteville. Recalls Jimmy, the only remaining son: "When we arrived at the airport, there was a little delegation waiting to see us. Dad looked out of the window at their faces and he knew...
...them until they were dead. Now there is a drawing-together. Eula's daughter Doris, whose whole life has been a fight to win her father's affection ("There's no one in the world I'd rather see walk in the door than my dad, because I just love him to death"), feels at last that she has. Lucille's son Jimmy, who had always felt left out, turned to the law after Johnny's death ("I really didn't know what I wanted to be, but I wanted to be close...
...going for the big leagues, boy," he would mutter fiercely, and the child would nod fiercely in agreement. At 17 Jim was a spectacular outfielder whose all-round talents won the state championship for his high-school team; but his father was never satisfied. "How'd I do, dad?" Jim asked anxiously after playing a prodigious game. And father implacably replied, "Not bad, son. But you weren't on your toes all the time, and you know it." Jim nodded dully, and the minute his father was not looking he gobbled a fistful of aspirin. Funny how those...
Wanna Build a Boat? Then there is the case of ten-year-old Billy, who today would be in the sixth grade but in Caudill's future school is in something called the 27th Self-Improvement Level. Billy and his dad, it seems, want to build a boat. "A project is set up which involves much subject matter-reading, writing, spelling, science, mathematics, and even music-based on the theme, 'Making a boat.' " Finally a Learning Lab is prepared, and when dad's vacation rolls around, he joins his son-and possibly his daughter...