Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sliwa began recruiting in the jungles of the South Bronx among ghetto kids who, in the eyes of the world, are more likely to be criminals than crime fighters. Among the original 13 is Tony Mayo, 18, a black who never knew his father, lost his mother when he was still a toddler, was then raised by relatives in one of the grimmest sections in any American city. "I'm nearly a black belt," says Mayo. "I can disarm a man carrying a knife. I've developed a spiritual eye. I can feel you behind...
...ebullient former chairman of the Democratic National Committee was a surprising choice for that task. Strauss, whose father-in-law founded the Texas chapter of the American Jewish Committee, had hitherto been known primarily as a highly effective back-room pol. His arm-twisting skill in negotiating a new pact that lowered tariffs between the U.S. and its major trading partners and his rapport with the President seem to have weighed more heavily with Carter than Strauss's uncertain knowledge of Middle Eastern realities. Says an Administration official: "The object was to get a guy in there who could...
...finals of an American Farm Bureau speaking contest. Known to Indiana friends as Marvelous Marvella, Bayh survived a 1954 auto accident that left her partially blinded for three years, a plane crash ten years later in which she and Edward Kennedy were injured, and the trauma of her alcoholic father's suicide (after he murdered her stepmother), to face terminal cancer with a public vow "to value life, to cherish it and to begin my long postponed dream of being useful in my own right...
...Sisters," we are treated to a choice piece of cant as Nin tells of a father who "made a ceremony of burning D.H. Lawrence's books, which betrays how far behind the times this family was in the development of the sensual life." The worship of Lawrence is also felt in the language of these stories. It imitates without flattering. The result is not even very sexy. "She lived open and sensitized to his presence" and "all other women were cancelled by her voice" are not much of a substitute for the real thing. The frustration of the "Collector" becomes...
...Tommy. This is the work that turns the crime of passion into an art form. This is the story of a young boy's lapse into a blind, deaf and dumb state, induced by witnessing his father's murder. This is the story of a boy who suffers repeated assault to emerge as pinball champion, guru, and finally, a victim of his own followers' violence. This is the show that almost appeared in Dudley House. However, a Master's wrath (piqued by an oversize stage) forced a sudden relocation to the Currier fishbowl...