Word: aunts
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...amount of wishing could prevent her from becoming the most publicized child of the '30s. Appalled by whispers of Gloria Sr.'s loose life of pornographic orgies and sapphic lovers, Little Gloria's paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sued for custody of the child in 1934 and won. In the best account of this celebrated trial, Little Gloria, Happy at Last (1980), Journalist Barbara Goldsmith argued that a greater anguish lay below the ten-year-old's fear of being torn from her home in some Solomonic decision. "I was afraid she would take me away," Gloria had testified...
ILANA'S FORMATIVE YEARS are a bazaar of colorful people and firmly-held yet conflicting beliefs. The politics of her parents and their fellow traveller friends, the mystical stories of her Uncle Jakob, the Christian prety of her father's sister. Aunt Sarah, all make their way to her impressionable yet independent mind. All the passions that have moved people throughout the centuries meet and mix in the nighttime musings of an eight-year old girl and vie with each other for her allegience. Ultimately, and surprisingly, it is Judaism that wins...
...novelist for coloring his heroine's eyes in three different hues. When the relevant passages are cited, there is no real contradiction; what Flaubert was describing was the effect of emotions on the face. Scholarly critics, fumes Braithwaite, regard the most sublime creative geniuses as "some tedious old aunt in a rocking chair who . . . was only interested in the past, and hadn't said anything new for years. Of course, it's her house, and everybody's living in it rent free...
Flaubert's aunt, perhaps, instead of his parrot. The cheeky little irony is typical of Barnes. Brought up around London, he is the child of two French teachers, and he read French at Oxford. At 39, he has published two previous novels and held some Establishment literary jobs, including ones at the New Statesman and the Sunday Times. At the moment, he writes television criticism for the Observer. Under a pen name, Dan Kavanagh, he has produced two mysteries about a low-life London ex-policeman. They read fast and gamy, and --rare for a learned man who takes...
...paragraphs as basic building blocks" are some of Yao's rather commonsense suggestions Yao's thesis that most qualified law school applicants don't spend enough time on major mistake." The solution? Packaging of course. But be careful. Yao warns "You are not packaging yourself so that Aunt Molly will hire you to clean her yard once a week, nor are you packaging yourself so that your father will let use his new car." Assuming you can read the front cover of the book, you are packaging yourself to get into law school...