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Pryor's hostility toward white society can be traced back to Peoria, 111., where he grew up. He likes to say that his grandmother was the madam of a whore house and that from the beginning he saw white men debasing black women. He may be telling the truth, but no one in Peoria remembers, and the street where his grandmother lived has been blasted away by urban renewal. What is certainly true is that Pryor, now 36, grew up in a poor and broken family. By 14 he had quit school and started work as a janitor...
...this same Fowler was also a devoted family man who remained married to the same patient and adoring woman all his life and who raised a family that cherished him. When a friend judged his biography of a notorious Denver madam too indelicate, Fowler retrieved the manuscript from an astonished publisher and burned it. When he died in 1960, a convert to Roman Catholicism, Fowler was the friend of countless priests and prelates...
Father was Leland Hayward, the best theatrical and movie agent in the business and later the successful producer of such hits as South Pacific and Call Me Madam. Worshiped by his children and idolized by his five wives, he exuded vitality; he was incomplete without a telephone in his hand, making a million-dollar deal or selling a Garbo, a Fonda, or a Hemingway. Mother was Margaret Sullavan, the husky-voiced star of the 30s and '40s. Though she was not a classic beauty, men found her bewitching: "The fairest of sights in twinkling lights is Sullavan with...
English is riddled with anti-female locutions so common that their intent has been obscured. Men insult each other by casting aspersions on their mothers or by turning "feminine" characteristics into epithets like "sissy" and worse.Once-honorable words like queen, madam and mistress have, in fact, been tarred with salacious connotations that their male counterparts-king, sir and master-have escaped. Sometimes Miller and Swift's complaints are plain silly. The authors sniff linguistic oppression in the fact that women are said to "marry into" families; the same thing, of course, is said of men when they hitch...
...past to rectify the situation. Apart from those that suggested sheer violence, the only sensible approach was to bring in a fleet of London taxis, which are wondrously compact and comfortable, can turn on a tuppence, and come equipped with diesel engines and drivers who say "Sir," "Madam," and "Thank you." Some New York operators experimented with a London cab in Manhattan eight years ago, but rejected it when they discovered that the passengers enjoyed the ride...