Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others had added to the new collection, and Radcliffe president Wilbur K. Jordan appointed Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., father of the present historian and then a well known Harvard history professor, to direct the library's advisory board...
Other facets of the great Eastern religions give them clear advantages nowadays in attracting devotees in the west. Rather than personalizing the cosmic spiritual energy as God, as a being not unlike your father who demands certain things and says certain things and before whom man is totally degraded and who maybe, if you're lucky, if he feels like it on a whim, gives you grace, the East prefers to keep such psychological games out of the matter. Each person has this energy at his core, each person can reach his innermost being (and many do) and each person...
Tish came from a well-off, but by no means rich lawyer's family in Omaha. Her father, Howard Malcolm Baldrige, a strikingly handsome athlete at Yale who was decorated in both World Wars, served as a Republican Congressman from Nebraska for two terms...
From Van Gogh to Francis Bacon, the unease of some artists could reach such obsessive dimensions that it transcends mere dis play and becomes exemplary. In modern art, the father of anxiety was a Norwegian, Edvard Munch...
...almost deserted amid urban rubble, one of the few survivors of a highway plan that went nowhere. In it live Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom, a reasonably normal array of siblings ranging in age from 17 to six, and their mother, who is dying. The earlier death of the father and the mother's terminal illness have produced an upsurge in slovenliness and disorder among the children. What happens when the last adult dies is the stuff of tabloid headlines and, surprisingly, good fiction...