Word: childless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some cases, pursue unwed mothers all the way into the delivery room. Complains Francis Lewis, executive director of the children's bureau: "It used to be that we said, 'Here is a child who needs a home.' Now it is 'Here's a childless couple, let's go find a child.' " Lewis fears that couples screened out as undesirable in other states will pass muster in South Carolina's lax family courts. As an example of adoptive parents' vulnerability to fraud, she cites the case of two women from Summerville...
...Rochester, N.Y., candy-store owner, Rock graduated from Harvard Business School before beginning his career on Wall Street. Childless, he lives in San Francisco with his second wife, Attorney Toni Rembe, in a home overlooking the bay. He frequently attends and contributes heavily to San Francisco's opera and ballet companies and the city's Museum of Modern Art. His private art collection includes works by the modernists Robert Motherwell and Hans Hofmann. Rock likes to entertain at dinner parties, which attract an eclectic mixture of guests such as Opera Impresario Kurt Herbert Adler and Rolling Stone magazine...
...best things director Bill Rauch has going for him is the choice of the play. The beauty of the language and imagery of Lorca's tragic poem about a childless woman in a rural village contributes substantially to the impact of the play. And the play does have impact; it is doubtful that anyone could walk out of it without some strong opinion...
...have been that he lacked a security clearance. In 1978, however, he separated from his first wife Colleen, whom he eventually divorced, and in 1980 he married Schuler, then 36, whom he later described to friends as an alcoholic and anorectic. Despite those problems, Schuler, who was divorced and childless, worked as a secretary at Systems Control, Inc., a company involved in research for the U.S. Air Force's missile program. She had a "secret" security clearance. Shortly before her death, in a telephone conversation with a friend that FBI agents listened in on, she said: "There...
Chesterton was happiest in an arena he never really left: the nursery. The happy child turned into a neurotic adolescent haunted by unspecified guilts. He could only assuage them with religion. "Dogma," he was to conclude, "does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought." The childless man endlessly tried to recapture a youthful sense of wonder; almost all his works blink out at the world as if they were seeing it for the first time. Yet when he could tear himself away from toy theaters and critiques about "The Ethics of Elfland," he could toss...