Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hornstein's mother Vera, father Alex, and brother Avi sat in the front row as the congregation listened to speakers paint a picture of an ambitious youth devoted to Israeli and Jewish issues...
Caro's first Johnson volume, The Path to Power, was published in 1982 and proved Corcoran wrong. In comprehensive and forceful detail, it followed Johnson from the lonely Texas hill country, out from under the humiliating shadow of his failed father. The book ended with his unexpected defeat in a 1941 race for the U.S. Senate. The Path remained a best seller for three months and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction...
Perhaps the most emotional debates are those now occurring within the Roman Catholic Church. Father Andrew Greeley, the irrepressible sociologist and novelist, complained in a recent article that regard for priestly celibacy is being undermined by a "national network" of actively homosexual clergy. "In some dioceses, certain rectories have become lavender houses," he grumbled. Theologian Richard McBrien of the University of Notre Dame contends that homosexuality is so widespread that "heterosexual males are deciding in ever increasing numbers not even to consider the priesthood...
After his father left his family--"without warning, for no apparent reason," according to Weisbroad--the Woodbury native decided he could not leave his mother, Patricia, alone in the East. Suddenly, Harvard was the obvious alternative. He already had two sisters in the Boston area--one at B.C., one at Springfield College. And the Crimson's hockey program was already a force in the ECAC...
...came to Cambridge in emotional turmoil, but he took his frustrations out on the ice, scoring seven goals in his first seven varsity games before a crippling knee injury forced him to watch the Crimson from the press box. By that time, he was estranged completely from his father and has not seen him or spoken to him since. That was the hardest period of his life...