He was the scion of one of the wealthiest mercantile families in a small industrial city in the Middle West. She was the daughter of the descendants of the Irish and German immigrants who had populated the city in the 19th century. Both received their grammar school educations at St. Benedict Catholic School, 13
years apart. He went East for his high school education in private schools. She graduated from the local public high school.
He went on to Yale, where he graduated in 1924 with a degree in engineering and where he was elected to the Torch Society, which honored the 10 outstanding juniors for their achievements. He was also an exceptional athlete, especially excelling in
track and field events, while also playing the offensive end position on two undefeated Yale football teams in 1923 and 1924. In the latter year he was named to the nation’s All-America football team and voted Yale’s best all-around athlete.
She studied at the local state college for one semester, majoring in English, before dropping out during the Great Depression to work in order to help her large family. She had wanted to be a writer, and in fact had written a novel during grammar school.
He was handsome and gifted and a sportsman. She was beautiful and multi-talented and a sportswoman. He was Anton Hulman, Jr. She was my mother-to-be, Dorothy Cleary. Continue reading “Affection Harvested in Autumn”
Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol has already publicized evidence of presidential crimes, the Attorney General has been silent on the status of investigations into the former president’s conduct regarding his effort to have the election of President Joe Biden overturned, which led to the insurrection at the nation’s capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Meanwhile, according to a
commonly trained that legal reasoning is a learned skill much like that in scientific work. It is based on principles of deduction, according to which judges make decisions about laws by logically figuring out how the principles established in earlier court decisions–precedents–apply to the current dispute before them. In this perspective, judicial decision-making–especially in the higher courts with the best trained lawyers–is a matter of technique. It produces the correct legal answers based on facts and reason, free of bias and personal belief. Competent practitioners, therefore, should reach the same, right, answers.
consequential–even somewhat anodyne–meaning is that American racists are attracted to the Republican Party because it has long favored tough-on-crime policies and low taxes/small government policies, which have always translated into harsh punishments of and weak federal support for poor people, among whom minority populations figure disproportionately. This view can seem to insulate the Party itself from charges of racism and racial animus.
data, people trained in a science that has long drawn heavily on Latin words and roots, routinely mess up the use of “data.” You know what the singular word for “data” is? It is datum which, I agree, does not roll easily off the tongue. But we don’t need a single datum. We need an “are.”
swim races against other area teams, I dive into the water and swim under it, scraping the bottom of the pool. I take a snaking route and soon go right past her legs, perhaps barely brushing them with my own. I don’t dare surface. Holding that long breath, I swim on, still snaking around the expanse of the pool bottom, until I’ve passed many other pairs of legs. I come up for air only after I am safely shrouded by the other kids’ torsos between me and her.
planes were leaving Boston Logan International Airport on their routine schedules, many of them heading as usual to New York City. As they lifted off the runway, these planes would fly low over my son’s new school, where he was in his first week as a high school freshman.
