Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involvement in Viet Nam, a stance that left him odd man out among friends, fellow authors and members of his children's generation: "Authority to these young people was Amerika, a bloodstained bugaboo to be crushed at any cost. To me, authority was the Shillington High School faculty, my father and his kindly and friendly, rather wan and punctilious colleagues, with whose problems and perspective I had had every opportunity to empathize...
...class in Los Angeles. In school, he says, "kids like to feel my hair because it's fuzzy. They ask questions like do I get sunburned when I go to the beach. Dumb questions like that. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I'm different." Khalil's father Bernard, a Xerox executive, would like his son to someday attend Florida A&M, the mostly black school he and his wife attended. "It's important for a black kid to understand that there are lots of other smart, talented blacks in the world," says Kinsey...
Five minutes before the first game in which he was supposed to play net at the tender age of five, freshman Chuckie Hughes turned to his parents and announced that he needed to be excused. His father, who was coaching the team, was reluctant to let him go. But at Hughes' insistence, his mother escorted him to the restroom. By the time she had helped him get all his equipment off and back on again, the game was over...
...father pushed me really hard," Hughes says. "I'm glad that he did to a point, but it's been pretty tough. I almost quit hockey a couple of times because he pushed me so hard. But I think learning to handle it helped me to deal with pressure, so now I'm not afraid of pressure situations...
Hughes has certainly given his father ample reason to be proud. Ranked third in his graduating class, he has received numerous off-the-ice honors, including being named the Hartford Whalers Best Student-Athlete in New England and being selected All-scholastic by both The Boston Globe and The Boston Herald. Harvard was the natural choice when it came time to decide which school he would attend...