Word: fatherness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life that our parents lead, are inspired by the things that inspired them or feel to be important ideals that are the breath of life to them? How many Englishmen under 25 stand to attention when the anthem is played or long for the great days of Empire? Your father's bluff common sense and your mother's gracious ordinariness are precisely the qualities needed to capture the affection of our parents. That is precisely why they seem an irrelevancy to us. It is not that we dislike them. They simply do not seem to be important...
...that is wrong in our society: and you, if you have the courage to see it, are in an ideal position to bring those wrongs to the public eye. We should like to have a king who is not afraid to speak out against hypocrisy and inhumanity as your father has spoken out against stupidity and inefficiency. We should like a Prince who can tell our elders that the long-haired layabouts who haunt their suburban nightmares are not necessarily destructive ogres, but sometimes human beings who are more concerned with men than with money...
...doubtful that Margie Lindsay, 16, will have to worry about paying her own way through college. Still, considering the way things are going for her father, New York's Mayor John Lindsay, it is probably just as well that Margie has begun a career of her own in modeling. The long-limbed Manhattan schoolgirl began as a model for Maximilian Furs at age 14, and her slim beauty has been in demand ever since. Last week she spent primary day modeling the collection of Ben Kahn, which included a wild Tibetan yak poncho. But Margie admits that...
...Answer: raise a boy like Thomas Lagos, who has just saved his family thousands of dollars by breezing through Ohio's Wittenberg University in a single year. A Wittenberg faculty member said, "It's phenomenal, we've never seen anything like it here." Says his awed father, a Greek immigrant farmer: "Whatever Tommy do, he like to do fast...
...rallied to win the fourth, fifth and eighth games and go ahead by the score of 5 to 3 (players receive one point for each game they win, ½ point for a draw). The Armenians in the audience moaned. Said one official: "It was like the funeral of a father." Then Petrosian rallied. Baffling Spassky with his impenetrable defenses, he tied the score at 6 to 6. For the next six games, the contest was a standoff; one expert described it as a battle between "the young tiger who jumps on his prey and the old crocodile who waits...