Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lavish furnishings, his yachts, art treasures and the fleet of foreign cars he has received as gifts from visiting heads of state. After a table-groaning banquet, he asks: "Well, Mama, what do you think? Not bad for your little boy?" To which the old woman replies: "My son. it's very impressive. But what if the Communists come to power...
...values. We have our cabins, our spare time. What may be most important to me is my feeling of safety. I'm not thinking of crime as much as of health and retirement benefits. If I were to die now, for example, my wife and 15-month-old son would get 80% of my present income for some time. That's safety...
Last summer the Ainsworths' five-year-old son developed a persistent rectal disorder. The commune wanted to vote on whether the family should stay or go, but the Ainsworths balked at the notion of group control and left. Was that a proper Iron Age decision? Says Lindsay: "An Iron Age mother would have attended to her child, especially if it was a boy." A specialist later reported that the primitive diet had produced the ailment, which contemporary meals promptly cleared...
Rudyard Kipling, the laureate of British imperialism, of the white man's burden, and the stiff upper libido now seems a literary fossil. His world began to wobble after 1918 and the war that took the life of his son. The colonial India where he was born in 1865 lives on in Monty Python skits. In America, Kipling's credit lines followed those of Gary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Gunga Din, Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell in Kim, Sean Connery and Michael Caine in The Man Who Would Be King and, of course, Sabu, star...
...natural as a song. His father, a Russian immigrant, was a onetime boxer who made his living as a professional card player. When William Zevon wanted to marry Warren's mother, the impending union caused a family crisis that became, 18 years later, the subject of their only son's most autobiographical song. Mama Couldn 't Be Persuaded...