Word: fatherless
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After Feinberg speaks, he stands back and braces himself for an artillery of angry rhetorical questions. Gerry Sweeney, whose brother died in Tower 2, Floor 105, points at Feinberg and explains why $250,000 is not enough for pain and suffering in the case of her now fatherless nephew. "Have you ever seen a 12-year-old have a nervous breakdown?" she asks. Another woman concocts an analogy to illustrate for Feinberg what it was like to talk to loved ones as they came to accept their imminent, violent deaths and to watch the towers collapse on live...
...After Feinberg speaks, he stands back and braces himself for an artillery of angry rhetorical questions. Gerry Sweeney, whose brother died in Tower 2, Floor 105, points at Feinberg and explains why $250,000 is not enough for pain and suffering in the case of her now fatherless nephew. "Have you ever seen a 12-year-old have a nervous breakdown?" she asks. Another woman concocts an analogy to illustrate for Feinberg what it was like to talk to loved ones as they came to accept their imminent, violent deaths and to watch the towers collapse on live...
...older children wrote essays about what they would have done in a hijacked plane. All week long the school's students were eerily quiet; teachers must have missed a little rowdiness. "It was as if by being incredibly well behaved, good things would start to happen," says Smith. Their fatherless peer finally came back to school last Thursday to a roomful of rehearsed regrets. She told her classmates she was happy to be there because it was "Burger King day," when parents serve fast food for lunch...
...What do we make of the Clinton performance? Psychological compulsion, some sad residue of a fatherless boyhood? When the nation's president, its authority figure, had no authority figures himself, moral difficulties may arise. Or is this a case merely of no-holds-barred Elmer Gantry sleaze? No one knows where the bottom of the scandal is, but I wish that Clinton's loyalists would give up the line that anyone who is, shall we say, bemused by this spectacle is a "Clinton-hater" and "Clinton-basher." When we think about the messy story of Bill Clinton and the American...
...such egocentrism--the belief that great events and works speak to you personally--is also a foundation of the critic's craft. At The Music Man, Rich empathizes with the disillusioned, fatherless boy Winthrop: "'Hurry up and leave!' he yelled at the Music Man," he writes, "his sobs now more hurt than sad--another sound I recognized. He wanted the Music Man to stay and be his father." Ghost Light ends as Rich leaves home for college, but in this eloquent book, we already see him becoming a critic and art lover in the truest, deepest sense. In the process...