Word: fatherlessness
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...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...
...hard to avoid conjuring in the mind alternate Elians, as if they were twins separated by different fates, one of them gone to grow up (fatherless) in America and the other returned to Cuba--and to all that may mean...
Africa is filled with fatherless, motherless families like the Daitons. Last week the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and UNICEF released the first detailed count of the number of children left orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: 10 million and rising. In some countries, 10% of children under 15 have been orphaned by AIDS. There may be 30 million more...
...MacDonald's jolting account illustrates, all share the same problems and are familiar with social workers, fatherless households and handouts of surplus cheese. "The only difference," writes the author, "was that in the black and Latino neighborhoods people were saying the words: poverty, drugs, guns, crime, race, class, corruption...
...violence in his lyrics that makes it difficult even for people who like him to take his money. The Young Leaders Academy, which mentors fatherless children, decided it could not. "I have tremendous respect for his work ethic," says president Kirt Bennett. "But if we take his money, we are giving tacit approval to violence, misogyny and a whole lot of negatives." P sees a double standard. "If it's a Steven Seagal movie, they have no trouble separating the man and the message. But if it's rap, they take it personally. They try to make us look like...