Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Oct. 20 Milestone implied that William Frank Buckley founded a school in order to produce an "intellectual elite" from his grandchildren. My father's grandchildren are an intellectual elite by heritage. The school he founded will give them the education befitting such an elite...
...time for the United States to drop its "father knows best" attitude toward Quemoy and Matsu, John Carter Vincent, Associate of the Center for East Asian Studies, said at Adams House last night...
...Father Panchali (Indian). Director Satyajit Ray has produced the first cinematic masterpiece ever made in India: a stirring vision of life in Mother Asia...
...shapeless as the slops they issued him at the prison gate, and his condition as hopeless as the five shillings in his pocket. Slowly, as the Irish say, it is "let on" that Peter was a "dismantled Roman wreck," having studied unsuccessfully for the priesthood; that his father was a seaman, his mother a pious termagant, his brother a "great, rearing, clumsy bucko." Why was Peter in jail? The question involves a real novelist's art-the reverse of the whodunit, which is to disclose the crime and disguise the motive. Halfway through the book, when all the motives...
This is the simple outline of Novelist-Playwright Felicien Marceau's new book, but it is the portraits within, not the frame without, that make it a sparkling display of French tragicomedy. An irresistible pair are stern father de Gau-grand, a half-mad patrician whose "broad back [extends] like the Great Wall of China," and his wife, who wears newspapers (for warmth) throughout the winter and sits down to all meals in hat and overcoat. Daughter Denise, raised in this nutty household, is more than a bit weak in the head, but far from weak in will...