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...absence of parental models. Too old for her age, and too young, one high school girl reads Ingenue, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle and the Bible alone at night in her room. Why the last? "Because I'm nervous, and it helps me sleep. All the trees and fruit, the figs, begat and begat going down like the multiplication tables...
Over these past two episodes in the 135-year saga of the Cup, Americans had to learn from Australians the infinite possibilities not only of 12-meter boats but of ingenuity itself. Somewhere along the U.S. line, as Enterprise begat Courageous begat Freedom begat Liberty, revolutionary breakthroughs had been luffing. Then, in 1983, influenced by Dutch technology, a child of the Outback named Ben Lexcen devised a winged keel for Australia II that altered everything. Ultimately developing wings of his own, Conner agrees, "It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science...
...title of founding father, however, belongs to Honey Fitz's son-in-law Joseph Patrick Kennedy. Once he makes his entrance as Harvard man, Rose's suitor and shrewd young banker, he dominates the narrative. Joe and Rose begat Joseph Jr., John, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean and Edward. There are some formidable characters here. Rose was defender of the faith and the stoic keeper of the hearth and appearances. Joe Jr., killed during World War II on a near suicidal bombing mission, was the pick of the litter. Vivacious Kathleen ("Kick") died in 1948 with her foolish lover...
Independence itself was won in part through the work of Motilal Nehru, an early and active backer of the concept. He begat Jawaharlal, who served for 17 years as the first Prime Minister of independent India. Jawaharlal begat Indira, who ruled for 16 of the 20 years of the post-Nehru era and, through her marriage, became the namesake, though not a relation, of the country's spiritual conscience, Mahatma Gandhi. Indira, known to many in the nation as Amma (mother), begat Rajiv and then Sanjay. When the prodigal younger son and heir apparent died in a plane crash...
...Princess of Wales blushingly silent in Glasgow last week. Diana was there to accept an honorary fellowship from the city's Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. "For five centuries the perceptive heads of the Spencer family have married women of surpassing beauty, and the daughters they begat relegated Cleopatra to eclipse," gushed Professor Stanley Alstead during his presentation speech. After the ceremony, an admiring young Glaswegian, appropriately named Edward Romeo, begged permission to "kiss your hand, Ma'am." His passion released, he murmured glassy-eyed, "She is more beautiful than Cleopatra...