The trial of Elaine Harrington:
Cottle, Thomas J.
move again, if the cost of labor in the Dominican Republic came a bit homesick upon noticing a wall placard with words rises. Thus the multinationals both profit from and contribute of...
...And another went to a Catholic breathing space for the further awakening and better organizaschool in La Romana, where the priest in charge is now a tion of the people, then the writing on the wall may spell moderate defender of G&W...
...where to find him which was the world's biggest lie because Big shot with all his friends on the police force...
...In the beginning it was true that Edward would go off Three months after the family celebration, Elaine Harsomewhere and drink...
...Edward easily could have refused to when she enjoyed pleasing her mother...
...For many years, there was only "No one approaching fifty who never had and never will one person in her life that she believed was on her side...
...and my father showing the world how much he cares for me...
...What isn't fair is the way my father treats me, and my mother, and everybody...
...Instead, Edward prom- ELAINE HARRINGTON never believed her mother cared for ised to marry her and made arrangements for her to live with her...
...This miserable goddamn place has there, in the corner, in that booth with the chick.' So I goes, turned me away from my father...
...When she laughed, she seemed self-conscious, as if she felt Whenever one talks with her, one hears the same mes- she were sinning...
...I mean they're practically doing it right there in the booth...
...back to me, and my mother...
...whatever he did was right...
...It was the fourth time she had enough to hunt for work, but after hours in employment offices been taken to court...
...It's like I had to do something to call him from...
...suit, I always called it his court suit, all shaved and everything...
...I can't escape with television, we don't go to the policeman, or testifying before a judge on the two occasions movies anymore, and nobody escapes nothin' by sitting down when Elaine was taken to court...
...I admit that...
...Edward Junior seemed to be the of a station wagon owned by a suburban lawyer...
...practically crying...
...If such oldsuch donation and went on to denounce the critics of G&W as fashioned rugged individualism can continue to be sold in the "leftists...
...But Edward was different...
...6 July 1979: 401 "I counted on my father to get me off...
...you cannot help people permanently by doing for them Public Relations, vigorously denied that there had been any what they can and should do for themselves...
...I feel foolish laughing, now was unemployed...
...He's fantastic in there, run out of the house screaming...
...Most of the boys bought a small bouquet of jonquils and left them on the dinner she knew in school who became fathers never even bothered to table...
...Or she would promise lo do something for her mother side...
...him...
...They got some music...
...Because if any one of us told me...
...She knew...
...In one word: They're nuts with a Press...
...Seven o'clock curfews were imposed ways returned...
...Occasionally she offered excuses for her mother's his Aunt Mary who had recently lost her husband...
...you cannot help the (approximately equal to dollars) "for new installations and poor by discouraging the rich...
...Balaguer's collusion with G&W was the following: "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening widely recognized...
...Gloria thought she knew about the other women, but behavior but it seemed as if she were driven to act this way...
...move again, if the cost of labor in the Dominican Republic came a bit homesick upon noticing a wall placard with words rises...
...Still, he al- probation was arranged...
...It was strange too, isn't it...
...Ain't trouble, magic, there he was, sober, dressed up in his brown no time out of his life...
...Birdie told him...
...We were drinking a little bit and I guess we need him, I suppose, but not when he gets in one of his didn't exactly know what we were doing...
...I do love him...
...If he'd had any money when he was my which would send him into an even greater rage and he would age he'd have been a lawyer for sure...
...See if he don't...
...It might be a quiet chat with a around me...
...In time there were six preferred the baby Anne-Marie and the boys, and that she and more pregnancies, four of the children surviving...
...And then there's her, my daughter, who worked...
...I've seen -him stick him in here and see how he likes it...
...Consciously, purposefully even, discovered that Gloria had a rare blood cell anomaly which Elaine found ways to irritate her mother...
...He'd smell this air, with her lots of times...
...But the ideology is still proheavy-machine operators who have a court action demanding moted by the company for public consumption (and perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay for overtime for the philosopical pacification of any workers who may read work, are organized but have faced reprisals when trying to it-it is in Spanish...
...She would stay out affected her pregnancies...
...To pull him away Really weird...
...It was later Susan were seen as misfits...
...Edward has a job, the wouldn't be sitting in front of a hamburger joint smoking family barely holds together...
...When the behavior, but she always believed she had been an unwanted baby Anne-Marie was born, Mary offered to care for it so that child, perhaps the child who was conceived to prevent a Gloria could return to school...
...old man is but he ain't in here.' It didn't look like him neither...
...The way it works now, it's almost like when I neeed think he knew when I got into trouble that I was pulling him a little loving from someone I go rip off a car or something...
...You know how we knew that...
...those times, although he sure fell on his face this last time...
...You know why I got myself into trouble...
...In an interview in Oc- and worth by taking from a man his initiative and indepentober, 1977, Francisco A. Micheli, Jr., General Director of dence...
...she could never prove anything...
...I he had insurance...
...you cannot inculcate character maintenance of the Armed Forces...
...But whatever he said, it with the newspapers...
...had my daddy...
...She never had anything like that happen in The only time I see him is in a court room or in the judge's her life, but she could tell how it was bothering me...
...The whole family goes crazy when he's not around, not that we do so well when he is around...
...But Gloria rejected the offer, marriage from disintegrating...
...world...
...But if the present regime can at least provide some Dominican prison system...
...But I doesn't like it better that way...
...Another of G&W's many donations (amounting to Dominican Republic, or force-fed if necessary, then the future a mere fraction of its Dominican profits, of course) will pay for will be secure for the strong, upper-class, rich sugar managethe services of American experts who will launch a study of the ment...
...The whole house was falling apart without him and she's "That pig, what'd he do for me when I needed it most...
...Families like mine, there's never enough time at my father, and he's not only kissing the chick, I mean he's for people to take care of anybody...
...I've never been in the She buried her face in her hands and shook her head from side, place before, but all of a sudden my friend Trish goes, 'Isn't to side, her long black curls seeming to dance...
...something other than the comforting ideology which G&W While waiting for the public-relations man, this writer be- displays to visitors...
...That lawyer they assigned to me, he couldn't save a fly...
...The children open and the keys in it...
...of this, I said...
...there was no probation...
...You been going to school?' 'Yeah ma, I've been in Brazil, but I went to school every day even though.' It's my father...
...I do love him...
...Elaine too was angered and defending me...
...I got the judge trying to do the best he can like somebody took my heart away...
...So Trish's looking at me, and I'm looking me, you know...
...Sometimes, you know, I think I'd like him to from that woman...
...that your father over there?' I goes, 'Where?' She goes, 'Over "Look what's happened...
...You got to know.' She'd say she didn't know but cially if it's one of your parents...
...I believed him when he said he'd Didn't look bad neither for a guy who hadn't worked in over a help...
...Well he don't...
...They get paid no matter what nounced than ever before...
...and I saw all my life too...
...That's why we those other times he could do it, so what's he do the second need him...
...Goes to school, reads her books, Besides, her father was a fair man...
...books and ripping the sheets off his bed...
...SHE COULD ALWAYS RELY ON HER FATHER The trial of Elaine Harrington THOMAS J. COTTLE Gloria Harrington, Elaine's mother, had never been a happy person...
...later...
...We were just walkmoods...
...She always said her mother and rarely let the baby out of her sight...
...ordeal was over, but that was preferable to going to jail...
...I knew my father would be sympathetic but it grew increasingly difficult to be civil with able to do something like he always did in the past...
...He felt an obliga- braced her daughter...
...year...
...she always granted it...
...As she herself remarked: sage: her desire for revenge...
...It was like the guy know all about it...
...She goes mad when he's not there but I'm not so sure she Second I looked at him I knew he couldn't do nothing...
...Like, he'd go off somewhere trying to kill himself 'cause he lost a job...
...It's not me saying it...
...He cops out like you can't believe...
...I've seen him go there...
...All her hurt when my husband " `Course this time he was really surprised by what I done...
...Cause when I got into little daughter, what does he care if they take her to jail...
...One night, you know, I was with he'd see what a great thing he done for me...
...In some families, when a tonguing her to where I'm amazed she ain't gagging all over' kid gets sick, maybe his mother will stay with him at home...
...I got friends.' Man don't have a friend in the whole ever got into trouble, he'd pop right back into the picture...
...She suspected that Edward Harrington, the child's father, would also abandon her...
...Honest it isn't...
...But she never knew from nothing...
...I always tell people it isn't fair what the cops or the courts try to do to me...
...His precious Magic, eh...
...But afterwards, my father always argues for "I saw Elaine in those instants," Gloria would say years me and he really influences them...
...He'd say anything to get you to like him...
...I do love him...
...But nobody's got family insurance, where could disappear for a month and they'd say, 'Oh., hello, you collect money if somebody messes up your family, 'spestranger...
...That's what he she did...
...How's that for excitement...
...She would scream at him that he was acting like a maniac, funny guy, my father...
...I don't know where my This place makes me say what I said...
...She didn't know they want to send me to jail...
...He's a him...
...The devil is the unemployment.It takes his pride away, ing, Sheila and me, and we saw this car with the windows wide his feeling of being useful to anybody, to us...
...Gloria tried to be "I wasn't warned or nothing...
...After several days he would suddenly be home, along with weekly visits with a probation officer...
...American mythology of small enterprise which is obviously Attempts to organize G&W's workers were forcefully re- inapplicable to a giant corporation like G&W with its close pressed under the Balaguer regime...
...Anyone steal a car, you wouldn't do what Sheila and me done...
...Elaine...
...the judge decides...
...I wasn't around, not that it is better when he's here...
...I've had my days...
...Once, for example, she marry her when she first became pregnant...
...We ain't seen you 'round here for along time...
...beyond her bedtime knowing full well that Gloria would be It was said of Edward Harrington that he had women on the furious...
...Elaine drew no pleasure from this sort of smile...
...If you really wanted to when they were small...
...We'd always ask my mother, 'Where is he...
...She might get a whipping from her father after the feels the greatest thrill in life is to break into somebody's car...
...They probably understood it in their way wanted us to steal his car or something...
...That night the Harringtons went to the Ice tion to Gloria, and when he was working he made a worthy Cream Bar and bought double cones, and enjoyed themselves husband and a helpful father...
...That have enough money and whose husband hasn't worked in was her father, fifty-five-year-old Edward Harrington, a man years can laugh anymore...
...Thus the multinationals both profit from and contribute of wisdom allegedly by Abraham Lincoln, expressing that old to unemployment in their drive for maximum gain...
...The court gives you a lawyer, but I don't know, humiliated by her father's actions...
...He moped around the house, and Gloria mother showed such a spontaneous response to the flowers, realized it was only a matter of days before he would disappear but without being told, she knew the flowers had come from on one of his binges, as she called them...
...Guy mother's always sitting somewhere complaining about this or don't even look like him or nothing,' She knows I'm lying, but that or fighting with my brothers and sisters, and my father's she keeps quiet 'cause she seen how I'm angry, and how I'm gone more than he's around, even when he doesn't have a job...
...For you mother...
...The children guess I was too...
...I counted on him too...
...No, that ain't my old man, you idiot...
...Just sitting there...
...But always freshly shaved, sober, begging his wife for forgiveness...
...He had to do good for me all why'd we need him anyhow...
...My "So Trish goes, 'It is your father, ain't it?' 'No way...
...I'm lucky I chambers...
...Each time Elaine and her parents appeared or waiting outside factories he would return to his favorite in court, then followed the judge into private chambers where haunts and drink himself into unconsciousness...
...But I don't know even what I mean...
...does her mathematics, tries to help me a little around the house, and then, when she hasn't anything better to do she THOMAS J. coTTLE is a Fellow in the Afro-American Center of Wes- goes with her friends and they find cars that aren't locked, or leyan University and Lecturer on Psychology at the Harvard Medical when they're locked, they take that as a challenge to break in...
...Yet deep down she felt she There were times, especially when her father was working, had no right to complain...
...On learning of the pregnancy, her parents know what to do...
...They ought to 321 Shields Avenue...
...All asking, why do we need him...
...He goes to )_orilee Marino's house...
...Lincoln, as presented by G&W, teaches demand their rights...
...Good old reliable daddy's going to pull me out You want to know where...
...I never knew if he knew I knew about him...
...You could see what was going on with us...
...Maybe I But then I look again and it is him, and he is with this chick, even stole the car to get him to give me a little look, take care of this Lorilee Marino...
...No matter what Elaine's difficulties she like my entire body is being asked to deny everything going on could always rely on her father...
...In her fourth appearance in court, Elaine was charged with That the children became implicated in the pattern didn't car theft...
...But nobody ever knew what was going on with us...
...He might pull himself together long rington was arrested for car theft...
...some people, and we went to this bar called Turpin's which is Then suddenly Elaine Harrington's eyes no longer were somewhere on the West side near Shields...
...Commonweal: 402...
...the strong...
...When he lost his jobs, he became as a family...
...And she returned to her old ways, coming home later and later...
...you cannot help the worker by destroying the one On April 1, 1976, in the Dominican daily Listin Diario, it who pays the wages...
...you cannot encourage brotherhood was reported that G&W donated $74,497 in Dominican pesos among men by stimulating class hatred...
...She had been found by the police in the driver's seat make it easier for anybody...
...Two weeks after the trial, sitting in the Angry, he would go to the room he shared with his brother visitors' room of a women's prison, she described her feelings, Peter and start breaking things or pulling pages out of comic knowing that soon she would be sentenced...
...Then he'd have to fight for me "No matter what else 1 do, nobody ever notices me...
...disowned her...
...Gloria could see that by the I suppose they do the best they can, but they don't really care look in Elaine's eyes, a look that was becoming more pro- that much what,happens to you...
...School...
...But there's no who had worked for fifteen years in a coal processing plant but more laughing going on in this home...
...Surely he was a handsome enough man with a winning and then forget it...
...Who the hell was she kidding...
...The Harrington pattern I call it...
...The rich man who owned that car, pass a course...
...Some, like the 787 relationship with governments...
...I do love him...
...Elaine was especially pleased...
...They don't care if I'm in school or cutting...
...He loses a job, falls apart, Elaine cigarettes like you were inviting the police to arrest you...
...He's the one everybody cares about...
...young woman with a look of defiance in her eyes...
...Not only had her scared and irritable...
...I punish me...
...He is the author of Barred from School and Busing (Beacon You want to know what it is...
...That's the only time he's nice to me which is kind of didn't go out of that place looking for somebody to kill...
...But she knows where he goes...
...Tall, attractive, a person interested in her appearance, ELAINE HARRINGTON, sixteen years old, is a very thin and taciturn, she always looked as if she were about to weep...
...We go in and it's filled with defiance, but with penitence, and she was cru',i g. dark in there...
...They because what I did, like climb into some guy's car, wasn't half don't notice when I flunk a course, they don't notice when I as bad as what he was doing...
...wherever he was...
...capital N!" Commonweal: 400 Gloria Harrington was pregnant with her first child when gets that look in her eyes, it makes me so frightened I don't she was sixteen...
...This time most upset by his father's displays and periodic separations...
...When Gloria noticed them she was overjoyed and emsee their children...
Vol. 106 • July 1979 • No. 13
