Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Disney team sees endless possibilities for its empire -- a new Disneyland in South America or Asia; a new American theme park based on the workplace, where visitors would watch ice cream, baseball bats and computer chips being made. Muses Roy Disney: "I suspect my father and uncle would be pleased with the direction we're going. The world has changed to the point where they'd probably be doing a lot of the same things." That portends well for the Eisner regime. "I see myself here forever," says Eisner. Inevitably, though, another new crew of Disnoids will be taking over...
Eisner had been a latecomer as a Disney fan. Growing up on Manhattan's Park Avenue, he seldom watched TV or went to the movies. Eisner's parents -- his father a lawyer-entrepreneur and his mother the president of a medical- research institute -- strictly rationed his pop-culture consumption. Recalls Eisner: "For every hour of television I watched, I had to read for two hours." Eisner dabbled in premed studies as a freshman at Ohio's Denison University, but eventually found better chemistry in the literature and theater departments. The first time he saw a Disney film was several years...
...this fascinating, sharply observed biography makes clear, courage and an edged wit were not Alice Longworth's only strong qualities. She was also unfailingly selfish and intermittently cruel. The ruling event of her life came shortly after her birth, when her young mother died of kidney disease. Her father, then a rising New York State politician, treated the baby with coldness. Two years later, he married an unsympathetic woman named Edith Carow, who took care to let the child know that her mother had been stupid and boring...
Bechstein's summer journey is interrupted every so often by the appearance of his father. As the summer wears on, Bechstein's visits with his father become more painful; he begins to see the man behind the mob. For Bechstein, his father is both a ghost, of a life he left behind, and a portent, of future that may await...
...said the protesters carried black banners and Palestinian flags, which Israel has outlawed, and chanted: "With our spirit and our blood, we will avenge Abu Jihad!"--Wazir's nom de guerre, which means Father of the Holy...