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When Armin Brott's first child, Tirzah, was very young, someone asked her what her father did. She answered without hesitation: "He washes the dishes." Brott, 40, an athletic ex-Marine and the Berkeley, Calif., author of a series of hugely popular books on fatherhood, didn't set out to be the superdad's superdad. When Tirzah was born eight years ago, he was working as a contract negotiator for a shipping company and thought business was his calling. But he found himself taking more time off and, over his employer's objections, bringing his little girl to work...
...what sort of dad is Brott when he's not washing dishes? Sitting in a fast-food steakhouse with Tirzah, now a third-grader, and Talya, a kindergartner, all theory dissolves. Laughing with the girls as they create minor chaos, Brott is clearly more permissive than some moms might be. "This is not a stylish kind of thing," he says. "I don't think it's going to 'help me pick up chicks.' I do it because I love doing it." Still, there's unresolved anger eating at Brott. For men like him--the sensitive superdads so longed...
...Tirzah" was put into the Songs of Experience by Blake, ten years after the rest of the poems were compiled. At first, the poem seems out of place because of its explicit metaphysical concerns and its lack of concrete visual images. However, the poem raises an essential question that mystics have been asking themselves for a long time. Granted both Blake's and Ginsberg's belief in the illusory nature of the universe, and the transience of the ego in any one incarnation, how then does one relate to other men and society? The poem is the voice...
...Farah, near Nablus in central Palestine, he found a likely spot, staked out a 40-acre claim. On the surface were iron age remains, rather recent for the Holy Land. Below, the bronze age began. Father de Vaux believes that he may prove his city to be ancient Tirzah, first capital of the secessionist Kingdom of Israel, which Jeroboam split off from Judah after the death of Solomon about...
Married. Nicholas Roosevelt, 43, one-time (1930-33) U. S. Minister to Hungary, editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune, first cousin of Theodore Roosevelt; and Tirzah Maris Gates, daughter of the late California State Senator Egbert James Gates; in Pasadena, Calif...
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