Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carl Coleman, a public affairs officer in HEW'S regional office in Denver: "HEW gets the social engineers, the people they call do-gooders. They're committed, and they make a lot of mistakes because of their ardor." His favorite example: the West Coast bureaucrat who tried to ban father-son school banquets on the ground that they discriminated against women...
...hypothetical, but typical low-income family in an urban setting that is receiving its legal share of HEW's substantial offerings. Paul Palmer, 45, and his wife, Jane, 40, live in Boston with their four children. In addition, Jane's mother and Paul's father are part of the family...
Giovanna is sitting in a car outside her father's villa in the Via dei Villini. She is eating a pizza. Suddenly a van appears and three masked men jump out, seize Giovanna and bundle her off before she has time to sing one note. The villains bring her to a hiding place not far from her home. The police, in search of Aldo Moro, ring the kidnapers' doorbell on two occasions. When no one answers they go away. A few days later, the villains wrap up their captive in a plastic bag and drive to a more remote hideout...
...street below, her mother and father meet with eager journalists. The duke sings Sono distrutto (I am destroyed...
Most of the recollections--not necessarily in chronological order--stemmed out of my activity in the then Harvard Liberal Club, which in those days could boast a clubhouse heavily mortgaged but benefiting by the benign trusteeship of at least two faculty members: Arthur Holcombe and Arthur M. Schlesinger (the father, of course). Much of our activity was unstructured because we were...