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Word: fathered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Babbit related his experience of standing in line with his young son at a shelter for the homeless. When they encountered a 12-year-old kid by himself, the son turned to Babbit in amazement. His basic ideals about his nation had been shattered. The solution for the father-son duo was to return to those basic ideas, in the form of the Lincoln Memorial, which Babbit explained in Stewartesque cadence, "isn't a memorial, it's a shrine." They read the Gettysburg Address together, and psychically restored by the words of a president who had lost many elections before...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Mr. Smith Comes to Harvard | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...magazine dedicated to "unofficial" Russian art, the critic Igor Golomshtok lamented, "We know little more about Malevich's last paintings than about Andrei Rublev," the legendary Russian artist who died in the 15th century. For most artists in the Soviet Union today, Malevich is the rodonachalnik, the "founding father" of modern art: the man around whom its history needs to be rewritten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Canvases of Their Own | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...petite woman with gray hair, Lauristin may seem an unlikely revolutionary, but she is as much a rebel in her own way as was her father Johannes, a prominent Estonian Bolshevik. Her Popular Front has taken the organizational model of the party and turned it upside down. The movement promotes no rigid political platform, except a general commitment to democracy and pluralism, and welcomes everyone into its ranks. Its central steering committee is an umbrella organization for dozens of local chapters that open their doors to any citizens' groups with a worthy cause. In Tartu the Popular Front joined with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Union: Go Faster! No! Go Slower! Pushing Forward | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...lining up to buy sausage," says a Memorial volunteer. One woman, hands trembling, offers to donate a ring that her husband fashioned for her in the prison camps out of a bolt nut. Another, barely keeping back tears, asks for advice about how to discover what happened to her father. She had thought he died of pneumonia in a labor camp in the early 1950s, but has recently heard that he was shot in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Union: Haunted By History's Horrors | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...Hughes' father had to remortgage his house to pay the tuition...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Talking About the Wrong Stuff | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

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