Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grace Van Owen; Michael Kuzak, a partner in the firm of McKenzie, Brackman, watched a client get shot to death outside the courtroom after being acquitted of murder; and Senior Partner Douglas Brackman had surprise reunions with no fewer than two long-lost halfbrothers -- as well as his dead father's mistress. He is now sleeping with the latter...
...anarchist and enemy of mass culture, had visions of an intellectual elite he called the Remnant. Another, Yale Political Scientist Willmoore Kendall, argued that the interests of the majority should always prevail over individual rights. A loathing of the left had already been passed on to Buckley by his father Will, a Texas-born oilman who made a fortune in Mexico, only to have most of his property there seized in the years after the 1910 revolution...
Eden William '91, whose mother and father stillbelong to a national Black sorority and fraternityrespectively, says she does not want to joinherself. "It is too bad [Black frats] still exist.It's more detrimental to race relations than it isbeneficial. I can understand the initial bondingwhich takes place, but when they get to be sostrict in terms of only associating with eachother, that's when you begin to question theirpurpose...
...irony lies with President Reagan, whose administration has been a case study in the political value of shameless dissembling. His success certainly has inspired Bush, and probably the Democratic candidates as well. But the real guilt rests with us, the voters. We wanted our President to be a collective father figure, an infallible, paternal presence. We wanted to believe Daddy's promises, and to hell with those doomsayers who would disturb our comfortable fantasy...
...really clumsy as a kid, and so my parents sent me to the pool to become a swimmer because you don't have to worry about gravity," Ogilvie says. "To this day, my father makes jokes like, 'Thank God you're a swimmer because we know what you're like on land...