Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which reminds me of the month, three summers ago, when my parents, grandmother, brother and I vacationed in Austria and Switzerland. We spent the last week on a mountain called the Rigi Seebodenalp, near Lucerne...
...morning, the five of us set off for the town of Weggis, a good two-hour walk away. My brother and I walked ahead of the others, soon losing them. But we had agreed to meet at a church in the center of Weggis...
...Valenzuela family struggles in the fruit fields, in rides Ritchie's brother Bob (Esai Morales) on his motorcycle fresh from a stint in jail. Bob seems determined to prove that he is an early-day version of Prince in Purple Rain. He is the bad son. Ritchie, of course, is the golden...
Buried within this autobiography is the portrait of a family that belies easy ethnic stereotypes. By the time Dukakis was born, in 1933 (three years after his brother Stelian), the family was living comfortably in the prosperous Boston suburb of Brookline. The Dukakises were, by all accounts, demanding parents. Sandy Bakalar, Mike Dukakis' high school girlfriend, remembers Panos as "scary." She recalls, "He had high standards for the boys, strict high standards. They had a very structured life at home. They had specific responsibilities...
Mike Dukakis thrived under this demanding regimen. At Brookline High he was president of the student council and lettered in three sports: cross country, tennis and -- believe it or not -- basketball. As a senior in 1951, he ran the Boston Marathon and finished 57th. But his brother Stelian had a nervous breakdown while a student at Bates College. "He recovered but never completely. There was always a certain amount of instability there," Dukakis says. "Nevertheless, he was my brother and we were very close, even though at times it was a difficult situation to deal with." Stelian was killed...