Word: fatherhood
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...mournfulness. His flappy ears droop dispiritedly. His baleful eyes are broody with hurt. His massive brow (receding hair) puckers with pain. He is the most excruciatingly funny anatomy of melancholy on Broadway. His wife has just told him that in advanced middle age, he is about to enter second fatherhood. Ford trumpets his dismay: "When he gets out of college, I'll be going on 83-if he's smart." Never Too Late is a one-gag all-night laugh show. That it can be unflaggingly sustained is a marvel. Much is owed to a genius of slapstick...
...business because his audience finds the program engrossing and totally unpredictable, but he also does his best to dispense free comfort and wisdom to both callers and listeners. His deep, mature, soothing and mellifluous upper-class English voice sounds like Harold Macmillan giving advice to Laertes. He is Fatherhood itself to women in trouble. He recently talked a 15-year-old pregnant child into waking up her parents and telling them the unfortunate news. "Whatever you do, ignore their first reaction," he advised her on the air. "Your father will be furious, but one day while he's shaving...
...Harvard Divinity School was virtually a seminary for the church until 1870. Emerson, Longfellow, Thoreau and Hawthorne called themselves Unitarians. Since about 1930, Unitarianism has tended to divide into two uneasily yoked branches: one seeks to preserve the church's past links with Protestantism, and asserts the fatherhood of God, the leadership of Jesus, and the hopeful march of mankind toward salvation; the other, the "humanist" branch, favors an ethical faith even more compatible with the world view of science. The Universalists, less influential than the Unitarians, were founded around 1770 by dissident Calvinists who rejected the idea...
...Churches Assembly, no dogmatic problem puzzled the delegates more than how to achieve greater unity among a variety of denominations. Last week, in the sixth encyclical of his reign, Pope John XXIII called on a Christianity surrounded by the forces of Communism and secularism to join together under the fatherhood of the papacy...
...humorous, extravagant folktale. He hires out for a wife, works seven years only to get the wrong girl, and has to start all over again. And with each new wife he receives, there is a slave girl who also becomes involved in Jacob's rather generous instinct for fatherhood. You see what I mean...