MANILA, Philippines -- "[A]ll men of sense," one of America's most imaginative founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, once said, "will agree in the necessity of an energetic executive".
John Bright inherited bluntness of manner from his father, imaginative sensitivity from his mother.
One other filial sports pair has an iconic stature in my imaginative life: the father-daughter relationship between Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal in "The Bad News Bears".
In one misguided section, as Wiwa offers an imaginative reconstruction of his father's final thoughts on the eve of his execution, the portentous cadences of the scene contradict the memoir's effort to reclaim Saro-Wiwa from myth.
He received his early education in one-room schools, largely under the tutelage of his older sister, and was subject to the strong influence of his father's imaginative stories of the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War and family readings of the works of Dickens, Shakespeare, and Sir Walter Scott.
Hawksmoor, 157 Commerical Street, London E1. 020 7426 4856 *** An open book The ever-imaginative restaurateur Russell Norman, the father of the Polpo mini-chain of Italian bacaros in London, has done something ever so clever with his new 140-recipe cookbook and guide to the bacaros of Venice.
Fortunately, there's already a film that exists, from 2009, that does exactly this that dramatizes and details a teen-ager's imaginative fantasies about his late father, who was killed doing heroic public service.
"An immensely successful business man, a devoted father and husband, an imaginative and visionary philanthropist, and a dedicated alumnus and trustee of Princeton, he lived life to the fullest.
Being imaginative means using your imagination more.
Sara, imaginative, clever, loving and rich, is orphaned when her father dies a ruined man.
