Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work on such topics as frustrated love in Greenwich Village, the H-bomb tests, and psychosomatic illness. Many of Feiffer's best cartoons are not funny at all, instead sting with bitterness and poignancy, e.g., the numbing isolation of a small boy whose braying mother prefers his brother. "I'm against the misuse of power of all kinds," says Feiffer. "I'm against people who use their views and authority as a ploy against others...
...century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy pleads with her to break the cycle of evil for the sake of her two children, and with the reasoning of utter despair kills the younger child to save a home for the elder...
Married. Raúl Castro, 27, younger brother and top lieutenant of Cuban Hero Fidel; and Vilma Espin Guillois, 28, sometime (1955-56) student of chemical engineering at M.I.T. and underground organizer in Cuba's revolution; in Santiago, Cuba (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...Died. Brother Matthew, 48, frail, balding lay brother of the Roman Catholic Servite order, famed, until he entered a monastery in 1953, as fast-fingered Alto Saxophonist Boyce Brown, a rarely recorded legend of the '30s and '40s, who as a combo colleague of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon helped create Chicago-style jazz, later found time for his horn amidst his humble monastery duties because "good entertainment is good and can be used to serve God''; of a heart attack; in Hillside...
...years, C.B. made soap operas with such homely morals as "Don't change your spouse." Then, said his younger brother William: "Having attended to the underclothes, bathrooms and matrimonial irregularities of his fellow citizens, he began to consider their salvation." C.B. rediscovered the Bible...