... told him that for a little while the concrete wall between father and son had crumbled away and I knew that we were two lonely people struggling to reach out to each other." (5) There's great sadness in those words. Part of the sadness is the reluctance of Moss Hart's father to reach out to his son. But part of the sadness is that he did not perceive that his young son knew he was loved in spite of their poverty. There is something far worse than being poor in things. Let's not forget amidst the massive ...
... two of them would move quietly to the next cart, his father putting his hands in his pocket and fingering the coins. So it went from one cart to the other. Nothing the youngster wanted could be purchased for what his father had been able to save. This is how Moss Hart remembered his feelings that night: As I looked up at [my father] I saw a look of despair and disappointment in his eyes that brought me closer to him than I had ever been in my life. I wanted to throw my arms around him and say, "It doesn't ...
