Word: fatherness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commando Forays. Manson is a drifter with a five-page criminal record stretching back 20 years. Born in 1934, to a teen-age mother, he never saw his father. His prostitute parent was often in jail, and young Manson was shifted around from relatives to foster parents to reformatories. As he grew up, he turned to petty crimes, mainly car theft. His education never went beyond the seventh grade. It was during these years that he apparently developed his hatred of the affluent and a loathing for women. In and out of prison, Manson became interested in music...
...favorite adages. "Being an unpolished man," he says, not without pride, "I am not too cultivated." Doctors are a frequent butt: "Medical education needs reforming. There is altogether no need to read so many books. How long did it take Hua T'o [the father of Chinese medicine] to learn what he knew?" Mao, who has succeeded in destroying the Chinese educational system in order to radicalize it, has this to say: "Schools are small tombs with great evil emanations and shallow ponds with many snapping turtles...
CINEMA COURSES: Only a few years ago, Gregorian students were forbidden to enter Rome movie houses; on-campus movies were limited to mild fare like My Fair Lady. Now students not only may go to movies in town, but get pretty heady fare on campus. Last year Father Nazareno Taddei, a cinema expert, introduced a course...
...what citizens look like." On rare evenings out at a party, he usually leaves early to get in a couple more hours of reading, writing or phoning at his office. Though Bachelor Nader has no antipathy to girls, he rarely has the time or inclination for dates. Says his father: "We're very proud of Ralph. But we wish he would get married soon...
...nights he runs a nightclub in Boston, but that is by no means all. He has enough pies to use up toes as well as fingers: an electronics firm in Massachusetts with outlets in Long Island, some real estate deals, and of course eventually he will take over his father's business...