Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mellon's English collection had swollen to the point where not even he had seen it all together; it was time to consider a public home for it. As president of the museum his father built, Mellon recounts: "It would have pleased me to give them to the National Gallery; the trouble was, it could never have hung more than an infinitesimal part of this very comprehensive collection, so the vast majority would have been in storage. I didn't like the idea of that." Yale, however, was pre-eminent in English 18th and 19th century literary studies...
...other names now carved in marble, Carnegie and Frick, the Mellons began their rise amid the soot and grime of Pittsburgh. Born on a farm in Ireland, Paul's grandfather, Thomas, broke away from both the homeland and the land itself to become a lawyer, judge, banker and father of eight children. In the post-Civil War era the Mellons gained control of most of what was worth owning in Pittsburgh, which was a fair part of what was worth owning in industrial America...
...attributes to the influence of Stoddard Stevens, an 86-year-old Wall Street lawyer who is still Paul's chief financial adviser. "Stoddard Stevens took away a good deal of the poetry from my husband's life," Bunny says. "He came along when my husband needed a father figure, and that's what...
...Midwestern town where he grew up in the gloomy atmosphere of a tightly-knit German immigrant community. Memories of grisly scenes such as a hanging, or even the dying of his injured dog provide a bleak background for the short stories. Without any annoying psychoanalysis Schorer portrays his raging father and his suicidal mother. Even though his history provides him plentiful opportunities for melodrama, the adult Schorer distances himself as much as possible from his boyhood emotions. He brusquely emphasizes the disadvantaged perspective of a child whose ignorance left the most important questions about causes and relationships unasked, while often...
...civil rights. But South Africa is not such a society. Not only are non-whites denied almost all rights, many of these rights are denied to whites as well. The government can use fear of the "natives" to gain a mandate for repressive actions. For example, a friend's father--a white, South African lawyer--was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years. His crime: circulating a petition among white voters which asked for the liberalization of apartheid, and planning a peaceful rally consisting of liberal whites. Television was not allowed until 1975 because of its "unwholesome influence...