Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been tricked. "What's going on?" he cried. Thompson told him about the commitment papers. "Goddam! Goddam you all," screamed Earl. "You all are doing it again. Goddam you, I'll get you! I'll get all of you!" Turning wildly to a deputy whose father holds a state job with the Department of Corrections, Long yelled: "Your old man just lost his job!" As Earl thundered and cried, a crowd of incredulous onlookers pressed in close. Frantically, Earl boomed: "You all look here! You all look...
...Recognizing that he may not be his father's child of terror, and responding to genuine pressure from the Yemeni population for an end to feudal tyranny, Prince Badr at once set about winning the Imamate in an unheard-of way: enlisting popular support. He began unprecedented weekly talks to the worshipers in Taiz's ancient Muzaffariya mosque, paid a surprise visit to an army barracks and ordered a 25% pay raise and free medical care for all soldiers. But before Badr could say "Reform," disgruntled troops mutinied in Sana, declaring that the local governor had pocketed...
...Papa of Dada. Harold Loeb changed more patterns than most. His father was a Wall Street broker, his mother a Guggenheim. Like his cousin Peggy Guggenheim, Harold found the climate of wealth intellectually suffocating, the security guilt-edged. After working in a construction gang in Alberta and tending a bookstore, Harold found himself, in 1921, by founding Broom. Names famed and forgotten spill from Author Loeb's pages like unstuck pictures from a family album. There was Ezra Pound, "dressed like one of Trilby's companions" in "black velvet jacket and fawn-colored pants"; James Joyce, dour...
Officially, Patricia is daughter of the game warden, a great, burly white hunter who has repented and now lives only to prevent other hunters from harming his animals. But the natives whisper that her real father is the king of beasts - a legend Patricia encourages by spending all her afternoons on chummy terms with the reserve's biggest lion...
Aparajito (Indian). Part two, following Father Panchali, of Director Satyajit Ray's brilliantly illuminating trilogy on a poverty-stricken Indian family...