Word: auchincloss
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...even then, Jackie Bouvier seemed somehow removed from her group; her friends noticed it and still recall it. In 1940 her parents were divorced. Two years later, Janet Bouvier married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a Washington broker, but Black Jack, who died in 1957, never remarried. Jackie adored her father, and her eyes still glisten when she speaks of him. "He was a most devastating figure," she says. "At school all my friends adored him, and used to line up to be taken out to dinner when he came...
...Jackie Bouvier, the locale changed after the divorce, but the routine was much the same: Holton-Arms, a blue-chip girls' school in Washington, replaced Chapin, and the gilded summers in East Hampton gave way to the 75-acre waterfront Auchincloss estate in Newport, R.I. If anything, life was more mutedly elegant than before: Merrywood, the Auchincloss chateau in suburban Virginia, is rich with taste and culture: soft-spoken butlers pad across the wine-colored carpets; mellow, morocco-bound classics line the walls; and television is relegated to a tiny recess on one side of the vast fireplace. While...
...16th century St. Robert Bellarmine.* At one point. Father Murray had to interrupt the interview for his afternoon lecture to some 200 young seminarians. Mrs. Arno, who earlier in the day had mistakenly entered a cloistered area of the tree-lined campus, was not allowed to attend the class; Auchincloss went, admitted to his host that he had some difficulty keeping awake during the half of the discussion on the Arian heresy conducted in Latin, although he had struggled with the language for a dozen years at Buckley School, Groton and Yale...
...times, the talks eased away from the deeper subject matter to such topics as the effect of drugs on the human consciousness, and the effects of Parisian restaurants on the palate. When his conferences with Father Murray were finished. Auchincloss returned to his Manhattan apartment to pore over volumes of research and finally to write. As is his practice, he wrote at home on his electric Olivetti, stopping from time to time to make himself some hot soup...
...Protestant Douglas Auchincloss' 17th TIME cover story (among the others: Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich, Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, and the Dead Sea Scrolls) in 14 years as TIME's Religion writer. Of this one, Auchincloss had an impression he will not soon forget: "The most relentlessly intellectual cover story I've ever done...