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...name the last father-son combination in Ivy League football. Answer below...
Wherever the author goes, father-son parallels seem to stretch to the horizon without touching: in the Roman Catholic Church, which he abandons and rejoins; in the attitudes of his doctors after Lance, a heavy smoker, suffers a heart attack at 36; in the jousting of police and demonstrators. The relationship that causes the greatest internal rift is the one between Hugh Morrow and Nelson Rockefeller. "No one does the words better than Hughie," Henry Kissinger remarks, as if "he were giving an endorsement to the pastry chef." Those words, Morrow acrimoniously notes, are what Rockefeller demands for 21 years...
...stories, the ones the New York Post and Daily News have subsisted on since the Cleveland multimillionaire bought the squad in 1973. There's the derigeur stuff about the owner's hate-hate relationship with two-time manager Billy Martin, and the latest dirt on what Steinbrenner considers his "father-son" relationship with once and future Yankee manager Gene Michael, whom he canned last fall but soon rehired for the 1983 season. Schaap doesn't forget to mention the owner's interference with his managers' decisions, or his proclivity for spending ungodly sums on utility infielders, or his psychological warfare...
...like many others before him, King declines to deal with Black and women Renaissance writers (excepting Lillian Smith) because "they were not concerned primarily with the larger, cultural, racial and political themes that I take as my focus." His attitude is chillingly condescending. By choosing to contemplate solely the father-son tradition in Southern psychology rather than the equally rich area of Black-white and mother-daughter relationships, King selects a narrow perspective sadly similar to his predecessors'. Repetition, not recollection, is King's game...
...Henry that form the entire middle stretch of the movie and well illustrate F. Scott Fitzgerald's dictum that "action is character." Together these two actors-one a movie star, the other a little boy with no previous acting experience-create what is probably the most credible father-son relationship ever seen in an American film. As Ted and Billy slowly come to terms with each other, there is none of the cuteness or sentimentality that so often clots movies about parents and children...