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FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A basically sentimental celebration of fatherhood-Jewish fatherhood, in particular-that rises above itself because of the author's high craftsmanship, fine irony and strong sense of the absurd...
Unitarianism was once snidely summed up as a small New England sect with a faith in the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the neighborhood of Boston. No longer. According to a new and wide-ranging survey of the Unitarian Universalist Association*which was undertaken by Chicago's Opinion Research Center, it has proportionately more college-educated and affluent members than any other church in the U.S.-and more than two-thirds of them now live outside New England, away from the faith's old neighborhood. The survey indicates that 63% of adult Unitarians earn more...
Television, the disseminator of most current American comedy, has abdicated originality in favor of the safe and same. As recently as ten years ago, such comedians as Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs were savagely satirizing everything from fatherhood to French movies. Today on TV, comedy is rarely allowed to lumber into view unless preceded by its keeper-situation. Perhaps, too, it was inevitable that once man found a way to can the stuff of life he would some day find a way to can the stuff of the soul-laughter. Canned laughter is everywhere; TV has become a robot talking...
...awake all through her own production and was later told by her doctor, "You did that with great flair." The hospital wouldn't let her husband, Singer Robert Goulet, 31, in on the act, but that was just as well, since he had refused to take the educated-fatherhood course...
...serious in these passages, it is sufficiently interesting psychoanalytically that they occur to him. He calls his father's death "the big event of my life: it sent my mother back to her chains and gave me freedom." Freedom from what? From the necessary difficulties that parenthood (not just fatherhood) brings to every member of the family? Certainly Sartre's later life with his mother and Simone de Beauvoir hardly convinces anyone that he escaped so unscathed...