Word: brides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar window 134 years ago, Arnold beheld his progressive, aggressive world and began serenely: "The sea is calm tonight./ The tide is full, the moon lies fair/ Upon the Straits . . . Come to the window, sweet is the night air!" A long, successful life lay ahead of him. His new bride was near by. But by the end of the stanza, he was hearing the "eternal note of sadness" in the sea and the rolling of the pebbles, and by the second stanza, the "ebb and flow/ Of human misery" was overwhelming. The final lines of Dover Beach are racked with...
...beauty and novelty are always in the hands of people no different from those who strolled about the harbor or slept as Arnold scratched out his poem by the window? Everything depends on how one wishes to live one's life, which still requires the constancy Arnold promised his bride, and a good deal of courage besides. So we race wide-eyed into one more year, searching for the land of dreams that lies as near...
Within a year Peter's father had remarried. His new bride, Nancy, was an accountant, and she helped clear up some of her husband's heavy debts. Six years later she had a son of her own, whom she seemed to favor. Some friends now believe this was the seed of Ueberroth's drive to achieve, the deep need to gain approval from his new mother. The family moved often, and young Pete had to adjust to a variety of schools and neighborhoods, from Iowa to Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and finally to Northern California, in the town of Burlingame...
...Prince, impatient to meet his wife of twenty years, disguises himself as a new undergraduate and invades Castle Adamant to claim his bride. But his suit is unsuccessful, and his father (Douglas Freeman) ends up bombarding the castle; the maidens recoil at the thought of blood and violence, and Prince Hilarion gallantly proposes (over the hisses of the audience), "Woman has failed...
...clothing manufacturer, Tartikoff grew up on Long Island, where he used to stay home from school to watch sitcoms like December Bride and My Little Margie. He foresaw his calling on a Sunday night in 1959, when he sat cross-legged in front of the family set to watch the premiere episode of Dennis the Menace. "After it was over," Tartikoff recalls, "I turned to my parents and said, 'They could have made that show much better...