Word: fatherlessness
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...Fathered he is, yet he's fatherless." This is an obvious printer's error and should read...
...Cumming's story is a more ambitious attempt both in its stylistic devices and in its deeper search for his subject's psychic needs. Although Cummins shows some insight into the insecurity of a fatherless Negro boy, his experiments with style are not half so successful. In order to gain immediacy Cummins uses the present tense throughout his narration, a dangerous and difficult patli on which he slips occasionally, especially when attempting to introduce background information...
...little (pop. 12,600) Italian town of Borgo San Sepolcro, lying in the fertile valley of the upper Tiber, has a proud boast: one of its townsmen was the great Renaissance painter and mathematician, Piero della Francesca (circa 1418-92). Legend has it that Piero was a fatherless boy who took the name of his mother Francesca. He studied at Florence, returned to Borgo San Sepolcro to get his first major commission, traveled through Italy painting in Rimini, Ferrara, Rome, Arezzo and Urbino, then settled down to spend his last 14 years in his native town compiling two mathematical treatises...
...1930s, many a U.S. housewife without so much as a Cadillac to call her own wrung her hands in anguish over the plight of a pathetic, ten-year-old waif named Gloria Vanderbilt. Fatherless at two, Gloria was heir to a trust fund totaling some $3,000,000, and nobody seemed to love her for her wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo...
...calf. Pierre's distrust of the outside world was in no way softened when, three years ago, his half-witted daughter Marie-Helene went to a dance in the nearby village and got herself with child. "L'idiote," the neighbors used to cry as Marie walked her fatherless baby girl along the country roads...