Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wait gives the film some of its glow. It is easy to imagine Beatty spending his boyhood watching double features at the neighborhood movie palace. That was not the case. Growing up in Richmond and later Arlington, Va., Beatty (then spelled with one t) was a bookworm. His father, a high school principal, taught him to read at the age of four. He had a formidable sister, Shirley MacLaine (MacLean is Mrs. Beaty's maiden name). Three years older than Warren, she was the tomboy. Today she feels that both children were greatly influenced by the powerful personalities of their...
...Levitt recalls it, he stopped by his parents' home in Newton, Mass., for dinner before attending the wedding rehearsal. His father was going to give him money from stock sales, and his sister wanted to borrow his guitar. No sooner had his father greeted him, he says, than three men tied a hood over his head and wrestled him into a truck. After being driven for about an hour, he found himself prisoner in an attic. There he was kept awake for 36 hours and fed only a matzo and a piece of chicken. Day and night young Jewish...
...result of Levitt's story, his father Albert Levitt, a government engineer, faces a preliminary hearing on a kidnaping charge July 18, and a grand jury in New York State is considering whether to indict others. The father has pleaded innocent to the charge...
Christine says that Ken's mother once demanded that she convert to Judaism and, when rebuffed, said she would do anything to stop the wedding. The father's defense lawyer, however, says the Levitts opposed the wedding not because Christine was a Gentile Evangelical but because their son was unstable. Weeks before the original wedding date, a man who said he was with the Jewish Defense League called the pastor who planned to marry the pair and warned...
Aaron Greidinger, the hero and narrator, recapitulates the careers of other Singer characters and, in many small details, that of Singer himself. Growing up in Warsaw in the early years of this century, Aaron slowly disentangles himself from the strictures and teachings of his rabbi father and becomes attracted to secular philosophy and literature. As a young man he lives penuriously on what he can get by writing for the Yiddish-language newspapers. His other support is the warmth offered by a succession of women. Chief among these is Betty Slonim, an American actress with an old, wealthy impresario boyfriend...