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...some of the most profoundly evolutionary, if not downright revolutionary, music of our time. It is somber, dark music that is not primarily intended to provide instant pleasure. Composing thus, Carter is a true child of the age of anxiety, but in matters of compositional style he is essentially fatherless. No one teacher, composer or school of thought can be said to have created him. The higher mathematics of his music represents his own laboriously worked out solutions to the challenges of modern theory. In effect, he creates a new language each time, then writes the piece. Of Carter...
bank of the Rio Grande 27 years ago, his prospects looked dim indeed. He was a 14-year-old wetback from Guadalajara who had crossed the border illegally to earn money to help support his large and fatherless family in Mexico...
...nation shot up nearly fourfold: from $52 billion to $193 billion. Beneath the bluster and the controversy, a significant redistribution of income had taken place. Steiner passes too quickly over some of the deficiencies of welfare, particularly its tendency to break up families by giving assistance only to fatherless homes. Yet it is hard to quarrel with Steiner's summation of the decade: "In relief, there is no substitute for money...
Nonetheless, the 65 murderers and multiple murderers recently analyzed by Frazier did have some traits in common. They did not "know how to be men" because many had grown up in fatherless homes or suffered "repeated brutalization by a father who was inconsistent or unpredictably violent." Corll, Henley and Brooks all came from broken homes. Mrs. Mary Henley told reporters that Wayne, her eldest son, dropped out of high school in 1970 because his father (now divorced from Mrs. Henley) had beaten him and shot...
...path to a degree in medicine proved arduous. The second of four sons in a fatherless family, Robert Good had to earn his own way through the Depression by raking leaves, shoveling snow and running a newspaper route. Impressed by Good's ambition and industry, a Minneapolis businessman helped pay his way through medical school at the University of Minnesota...