Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that my first statements were not correctly interpreted. I used an Afrikaans expression [Dit laat my koud] which meant that I was not emotionally involved, the same as if you would say to me that your aunt died yesterday. I would simply say, "Well, I'm sorry." The direct translation into English sounds a little bit callous, but I only meant to say that I was neutral. I feel sorry for any person's death. But you understand, I'm not emotionally involved; I was not a particular supporter of Mr. Biko. I knew...
...wholly believable, for Menuhin's autobiography is above all a book about people, a series of descerning and generous portraits of the individuals encountered throughout a lifetime. The great and lowly alike are brought to life with a few deft words: de Gaulle, Nehru, Ben-Gurion, Willa Cather ("Aunt Willa...a rock of strength and sweetness"), Bela Bartok ("a composer to bear comparison with the giants of the past"), the family's Italian cook, a hotel porter in Leipzig, Solzhenitsyn, Glenn Gould ("that most exotic of my colleagues") and Jacob Epstein ("like his sculptures, he seemed...
...wife of a redhead, the mother of a redhead, the daughter-in-law of a redhead, the aunt of a redhead and the teacher of many redheads, I would like to say that I am sick and tired of hearing about the stereotype that connects red hair and hyperactive behavior...
...legal battle against the Eastern financial Establishment regarding alleged antitrust violations at TWA, suggested that the closest heir, Houston Lawyer Will Lummis, 48, become chairman of the Summa Corp. at $180,000 a year and co-administrator of the estate. But after Lummis, the son of Hughes' maternal aunt and a striking Hughes lookalike, examined the Summa books, he started to worry...
...mother might say, is new? Indeed, David Kepesh is the same slick monologuist that Portnoy was, given to frequent exclamations, flurries of rhetorical questions ("Is she not the single most desirable creature I have ever known?") and carefully italicized emphases. He tosses off one-liners (calling, for instance, his Aunt Sylvia "the Benvenuto Cellini of strudel") as if he has a stable of Borscht Belt writers churning out his material. On the psychiatric couch, Kepesh is a regular lie-down comic: "I cannot maintain an erection, Dr. Klinger. I cannot maintain a smile, for that matter...