The Morris character can't fathom how Dutch, son of an alcoholic skip-town father, is able to transcend his poverty and limitations time and again.
The single drawback was that because Union, like Hillside, was a Gentile working-class town, my father would most likely be the only Jew in an office of some thirty-five people, my mother the only Jewish woman on our street, and Sandy and I the only Jewish kids in our school.
Every two weeks all six, if in town, and the father gather for family board meetings to make group decisions.
On the evening I was there, Billy sat down with me as we talked about Irish history, the craft of writing, and what it was like to live in a town that holds his father in such high esteem.
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Bored at home, Marty finds a surrogate father in the town's nutty inventor, Dr. Emmett Brown.
With his mother and father out of town for the weekend, Roy was left to forage for food in their nearly empty refrigerator.
Mr Botting's father helped organise the first town festival in the 1950s and his mother was also involved for many years.
Their father borrowed money all over town to ransom his sons.
He moved to the town as a little boy when his father became the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, across the street from the family's house.
Ian Lavery, who worked in coal pits in Ashington, a town in northeast England, watched his father, two brothers and several uncles all lose their jobs as miners.
Her father was a builder from a town on the outskirts of Turin.
The Harlow Art Trust commissioned the sculpture of a mother, father and child when the new town was being designed and built.
McQueary and his father were told to be in town and ready to testify next Wednesday or Thursday, one of the sources said.
They had come to town seeking treatment for Mr Bhosle's father, who lost an eye in the attack, and to report the incident to the police.
Father Mullan says the small quiet market town cannot escape the legacy of the bomb.
That county includes the town of Kingston, where Adam Lanza's father, Peter, was raised.
Born to a newspaper-vendor father in Jamnagar, a small commercial town in the west coast of India, Budhabatti studied physics at a university in India.
Calvin grew up hearing cautionary tales about the woes that indebtedness had brought upon neighbors and family, and he got his first glimpse of political life at Plymouth town meetings, selling popcorn and apples while his father, a storekeeper and a legislator, participated in the proceedings.
Yet at 20 Isaac is still trapped in the small town of Buell, Pennsylvania, taking care of his father.
Women and young girls in her town respect Malala for raising her voice, and her father Zia Yousafzai for encouraging and standing by his brave daughter.
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Mr Gillespie's son said he received a phone call telling him that this father had been taken to hospital in the town following an attack in an underpass.
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Daniel, the defendant's son from a previous marriage, was living with his father and stepmother at the three-storey town house along with the couple's two daughters, aged eight and six, and Ms Jakubszyk's cousin.
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The ACLU is working with Afifi to fight that ruling, and for now we're hoping that he, who is an American with an Egyptian father, is currently able to hit the town without agents following his every move.
Growing up on the South Side of Chicago -- (applause) -- a lot of South Siders, a lot of Chicagoans -- Chi-town, yes -- but I watched my own father make that same uncomplaining journey every day to his job at the city water plant.
At a packed town-hall meeting, he was introduced by an unemployed father of seven.
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Her father was a carpenter at La Clusaz, a town in the French Alps where she was brought up.
The march, led by Father Mark Paris went through Swindon's Old Town and he led prayers in a nearby park at the Lawn.
He was the second of three boys born to an ethnic Korean father who ran a pachinko parlor in a small town on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.
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