Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle and good-sized fortune that my mother and dad put in trying to demolish the ghetto, I experience a deep personal pain. It is true that that fight won our people some new and decent housing in Chicago, but I cannot forget that it also won my father's death and my mother's current punishment by people who apparently want the property and not repairs...
Dramatic Opulence. That Gloria and "Stoky" could never see eye to eye on the children had been apparent to friends for a long time. After she divorced him (because, as a friend says, "she found she didn't need a father, and wanted a husband"), she married Stage-TV Director Sidney Lumet, who was her own age, and resumed housekeeping in her ten-room duplex penthouse on Manhattan's fashionable Gracie Square. There, in the glow of dramatic opulence (red rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world...
...Stoky, doting father that he was, could not get enough of his children. The 1955 divorce settlement gave him liberal rights, and he took every advantage of them. He arranged his Fifth Avenue apartment for the boys, gave each his own room and bath (they slept in the same room at Gloria's), a large playroom, and bikes. He talked of nothing save his boys and his music ("And," says a friend, "he was a bore about both"). He meticulously arranged their diets (insisting on orange juice freshly squeezed at the table just before drinking, no earlier), evolved...
...justice under the law. "Yours was a horrible and deplorable crime, committed under horrible circumstances," said the judge. And then he handed down the stiffest sentences possible-considering that the jury had recommended mercy (TIME, June 22): life terms in Raiford State Prison. He was sorry, said Judge Walker, father of two sons, aged 11 and 15, to send any young men off to the penitentiary. But "duty transcends regret, and you are fortunate indeed that the jury recommended mercy." Had it not, death sentences would have been mandatory...
Aparajito (Indian). Part two, following Father Panchali, of Director Satyajit Ray's brilliantly illuminating trilogy on a poverty-stricken Indian family...