Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anxious tale of well-meaning error populated by an overbearing mother, an overshadowed father and all the tensions that go with being an only child in a middle-class Jewish household. His trouble began in an apartment in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, a claustrophobic 21 rooms where Elliott shared a bedroom with his parents until he was eleven years...
...Elliott's father, Bernard Goldstein, had been a Broadway paper boy back in the old days when Eddie and Ida Cantor would come over after the final curtain of Whoopee at the New Amsterdam to buy a copy of the morning edition...
...tried to make the best of things. He took his son to his first baseball game at Ebbets Field when Elliott was only 19 months old (the Dodgers v. the Cubs). "Four home runs were hit in the game," Bernie says. "I didn't see one of them. I was in the men's room with Elliott each time." As a child, Elliott was always anxious to please and quick to apologize when he imagined he had done wrong. When his father would tire after tossing the boy in the air and catching him, little Elliott would say, "I sorry...
...Elliott's mother remembers. "This child," she says, "was too good to be true. He was too well-behaved. He wanted to please so desperately. I was too strict with him." She shakes her head. "Yes, Mama watched over him perhaps too closely. But it was done out of love. I wouldn't leave any stone unturned as far as this child went. I'd cut off my arm for this child...
...When Elliott was 81, Mama decided that elocution