Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firing line here are two mettlesome protagonists. Barbara Undershaft (Janet Amos), a major in the Salvation Army, proudly marches under its motto of "Blood and Fire" and does the Christian God's goodly work among the poor. Andrew Undershaft (Douglas Campbell), her munitions-tycoon father, marches under the maxim of "money and gunpowder." And yet this merchant of death is an apostle of life. His argument to Barbara is that he feeds and houses his workers so that they can find their souls, while she drugs the poor with a soup-kitchen dole...
ENGAGED. King Hussein, 42, urbane monarch of Jordan; and Elizabeth (Lisa) Halaby, 26, a Princeton architecture graduate, whose father is a former president of Pan American World Airways (see WORLD...
...born in Budapest. His father was a tenor in the Royal Hungarian Opera chorus, and his mother an amateur pianist. At three, Nyiregyházi could reproduce on a toy piano the melodies that his father sang. At four, he began piano lessons and composing. His first piece, he recalls, was "sort of Japanese-my father had been singing Madama Butterfly-and in the key of A-minor...
...their own bathroom! They also swab ours! Indeed, they vacuum the rugs, do the laundry and the grocery shopping, help prepare meals, do all the cleaning up after meals, make their own beds, clean their rooms, dust, sweep and polish surfaces as needed and sew occasional buttons on their father's shirts...
...children are both teen-age boys, and they do not live in a Marine boot camp but in a Manhattan brownstone where their mother writes novels (Such Good Friends, A Sea-Change) and their father practices psychiatry. Theirs is undoubtedly a special case, but Gould's principles of shared responsibility have broad applications and roots that go back to the 19th century farm...