Word: fatherness
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...PhDs and Nobel Prize-winners tire pretty quickly of the public's near-erotic obsession with the destructive power of a machine they consider a harmless tool. But, there's no underestimating the thrill of the risk. Earlier this year, when I visited CERN, my tour group included a father and his slouching, intensely apathetic teenage son. It wasn't until the tour guide mentioned that a helium leak could fell a man on the spot that the youngster's eyes lit up, practically dancing with visions of white-coated scientists crumpling to the floor like unstrung marionettes. "So, this...
...much as you have acted in a manner befitting your station,” Frederick said.“At least my faults and actions are not generational,” said Felicity, “whereas you—you are just like your father. Crossing lines of propriety that ought not to be crossed.”“My father never crossed any line,” Frederick said, wryly. “Indeed he never left the house at all, whereas I prefer the outdoors.” The captain of the ship...
...Neal, Redmond • arrested along with father for possession of methamphetamine...
...emergency room, and with inexorable swiftness Sally was ingested by the medical world, pronounced psychotic and committed to a locked ward. Greenberg joined the ranks of huddled pilgrims who lined up every day for visiting hours. (One morning he took artichokes to Sally. "Art makes you choke, Father," she said. "You should give it up. It's a false god who causes you nothing but pain.") As Sally's life fell apart from the inside out, Greenberg's began collapsing from the outside in. He fought with his wife, Sally's stepmother. He drank. As a freelance writer...
...sensation after his preposterously self-promoting job application video “Impossible Is Nothing” made the rounds on the Internet. Yet Matt di Pasquale is notable not because he deviates from Harvard’s social norms but because carries them to their logical extremes. The father of Diamond is not a rebel so much as the archetypal Harvard Man, right down to his professed love of two of Harvard’s largest classes, Justice and Positive Psychology. His self-authored biography reads not like a dissident’s manifesto, but instead sounds vaguely like...