Word: dads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success." To reporters he elaborated: "I'm not a nightclub man, and the music drives me out of my mind, but I have inordinately good taste." Did he feel he was cashing in on his father's name? "Only the narrow-minded would say that. I think Dad would have enjoyed it. He might have been a little perplexed. But then...
This season the quartet's eleven concerts in Philadelphia drew near-sellout crowds. Following their success in Manhattan last week, the de Pasquale brothers had only one regret. Said Joseph: "If only Dad could have heard us. He would have popped his buttons...
...retired admiral who once headed Annapolis. Superintendent Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman, 54, a much-decorated World War II frogman, called in Ponder and several other teachers to discuss Minter's scholastic difficulties-"not in an official capacity, but as a friend of the boy's dad." A few days later Captain Robert S. Hayes, head of the language department, ordered Ponder to conform to the flunk quota. Ponder refused: "I won't do it. I won't permit it to be done." He was thereupon flunked as an unsatisfactory teacher; his contract lapses in June...
...imagine what her late husband would have thought, seeing their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal family," she fusses, "and put everyone who had been to public school in a chain gang. He was an idealist, your Dad was." Most of the sane characters in Morgan! are a little daft as well, the better to plug the movie's thesis that mental health nowadays may be a mixed blessing...
...heart of platinum, and an impressive smattering of all the scholastic disciplines gleaned from faculty clientele. In fact, he likes Mona so much that in one of the most sadly comic episodes in the book, he takes her home and introduces her to his parents. Mom is horrified; Dad is too, but-wow, that sweater...