Word: clans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always irritating the Sawneys. The bobbies are always poking around, and the building inspector keeps checking up on the march of decay that is sweeping over the Sawney's house. The Sawneys grunt, roll over, and start to rebel. In a superb gesture of contempt, old Sailor Sawney, the clan's patriarch, pisses in the Jackson's geranium pot. Before they know it, the police, the neighbors, the Welfare State have crushed the dirty, free, vicious vagrants...
...that set records around the clock, and with each record came a mystery. Rumored seller of the Picasso: a member of the Greek Embiricos ship-owning clan. Top bidder: a Manhattan dealer named David Mann, who dashed off with his prize without even waiting to have it wrapped. New owners: still unknown at week's end. All Mann, who was pledged to secrecy, would say was that "they are a young American couple, relatively new to the art-collecting scene. I think the wife had known this painting for a long time. It was a dream of hers...
Teddy Roosevelt not only enjoyed taking telephone messages for his six children, he seemed happiest when playing with kids-particularly the noisy, energetic clan of 16 Roosevelt young cousins who congregated in the summers at his sprawling house on Long Island's Oyster Bay. He loved to lead them on cross-country hikes, and if he climbed over a huge log or waded through a muddy pond, each child was expected to do the same. When one wet and bedraggled little Roosevelt tried to explain to her angry mother that she merely had followed the leader, the mother snapped...
...judge decided that the son should be put to death because he had shown greater loyalty toward the authorities than toward his own father. This extreme devotion to family explains why the traditional Chinese has no social conscience in the Western sense, for the community outside family or clan is an abstraction. One looks after one's own, not others: this is at the root of much Chinese corruption...
...Their dress is shapeless, timeless. The light is eerie. Sometimes Nolde painted the flat Schleswig countryside and the powerful sea that lurks just beyond its dikes in turbulent colors reminiscent of England's J.M.W. Turner. More often, he portrayed the country life around him: a patriarch with his clan, a farm girl with windswept hair...