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Bennett shared his charges' interest in touch football, beer and especially rock music. (He once stopped traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike when he noticed the toll taker's badge and asked, "Hey, are you the Tommy Facenda who sang High School U.S.A.?") Bennett opposed the Vietnam War, but he respected the men who served there. He grew sickened by much of what he saw at Harvard: privileged youth skipping class to smoke dope and watch soap operas, and twisting the antiwar movement into an attack on America. Like another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, Bennett thought less that...
...accident that Travis Tritt sang, in the convention's closing hymn, "I wish I could turn the clock back/to the way my daddy said it was before." Nor that the most powerful moment of Bob Dole's acceptance speech came when he invoked the honor of the father he loved, standing all the way on the train from Kansas to Michigan to visit the son he thought was dying in the hospital. For months the campaign has been played as a custody fight--who would be the better father of our country; whom would you trust, Clinton or Dole...
...aging musician stopping on a street corner where a great dance palace once stood, yearning for one more Big Band night, when men in white dinner jackets pressed golden horns to their lips while a woman in a red evening gown with a flower in her hair sang plaintively of love...
Rudenstine then introduced a "special guest" to the picnic--a little girl wearing a paper birthday cake, complete with candles, who did a tap-dance as the crowd sang "Happy Birthday" to the city. Rudenstine clapped and sang along with the crowd...
...airport because the Pan Am phone lines were busy all day, and the only news we were getting was from TV. By the time I was in the motel it was late at night, and I had learned the truth. My charming, vibrant daughter, my Theo who sang like an angel and had a golden future, was dead at age 20. Had a gun been handy I might very well have shot myself. Instead there was nothing to do but cry and scream and crawl along the floor...