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...help I will stay, no matter how many houses I lose. And my children and my grandchildren will be commandos...
...these tales share a kindred urbanity, as might be expected from a longtime contributor of fiction and criticism to The New Yorker. (Gill's present post there is Broadway theater critic.) Many of the characters-clubmen, wealthy matrons, genteel spinsters -could well be the literary grandchildren of Edith Wharton's characters. Gill's narrative voice evokes the kind of man who might be found in one of his own fictional clubs or parlors-a wryly observant uncle or older brother who has moved in wide enough circles to be able to recount a homosexual killing...
...lack of close contact with it at an early age. "Current longevity, coupled with increased family mobility, has severely limited man's perception of death. Most Americans, too, expect to die away from home, and all but one third will die in hospitals or old age homes. Meanwhile, their grandchildren can expect to grow to maturity without ever witnessing the death of a loved...
...valued more than the vivacity of youth. Psychologists often depict these people as brutalized by modern America and robbed of their self-esteem, but these Hispanic-Americans feel that they are emminently important human beings, worthy of the love, respect and veneration they receive from their grandchildren. The fierce pride instilled in their children is indicative of their whole approach to life. "You can be white and have money and not own your soul," one grandfather says. Their poverty is immaterial. If their children can be proud, that's all that matters...
...cases involving kidnaping." He argues that potential kidnapers will be deterred only if they know in advance that ransom is highly unlikely. Billionaire J. Paul Getty took that hard stance after the kidnaping in Italy last July of his grandson Eugene Paul Getty II, 17. Fearing that his other grandchildren would be endangered if he agreed to pay ransom, Getty refused for five months to negotiate with the kidnapers. His stubbornness cost the boy an ear, which the kidnapers cut off and mailed to a Rome newspaper. In the end, Getty capitulated to family pressure and paid $2.89 million. Police...