Word: fatherness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week the clan that has grown so practiced at funerals over the decade gathered at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis. At Rose's request, the requiem was a white Mass-celebrated in white vestments to emphasize the Resurrection. Ted Kennedy delivered a brief eulogy to his father, reading from The Fruitful Bough, a privately printed book of essays about the ambassador. Boston's craggy Richard Cardinal Gushing, who has married, baptized and buried the Kennedys for 24 years, delivered a twelve-minute "personal tribute to the character and genius of a longtime friend...
...assessment was much too modest. Money underlies the family's unique position in American life, although money does not fully explain it. The Kennedy wealth, like the family's political capital, is both large and arcane. TIME asked Richard J. Whalen, Kennedy's biographer (The Founding Father), to take a fresh look at the fortune on the founder's death. His report...
...heyday in Wall Street and Hollywood, Kennedy was an aggressive, though never reckless in-and-out operator. By about 1949, however, he had decided against further risk-taking. Jack was looking beyond his safe seat in Congress, and so was his father. Joe Kennedy told his advisers to keep his money away from "troubled places"-he had moved out of the politically troublesome liquor business in 1946-and he turned down deals that he formerly would have snapped...
...writer's marrow, that he almost always devotes one autobiographical work to it. Playwright Oliver Hailey's Who's Happy Now? may not be autobiographical, but it has the indelible sound of private experience. His play belongs among the most perceptive portrayals of the son-father relationship that have been brought to the stage. Its special quality is that it is an Oedipal farce, zany, effervescently comic and full of as many crazy laughs as a clock has ticks...
...setting and the mood are Saroyanesque, an East Texas small-town bar. The time is the '40s and '50s, as the hero (Ken Kercheval) grows from boyhood to manhood. The father claims that he hates the boy, which is only half true. Not the least of Hailey's sound intuitions is the recognition that love and hate are not opposites but twins. The father is a butcher. He is violent, sentimental, and fiercely masculine. He has kept a one-fisted grip on two women for 20 years, his wife (Teresa Wright) and his mistress, played...