Word: clans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political pals with lucrative state jobs, said matter-of-factly: "The money is there to hand out, and I'm sure not going to give it to my enemies." He became a favorite of Bobby Kennedy's, traveled several times to Washington to visit with the clan; at one party, he was even dunked in the famed swimming pool along with his dance partner, Mrs. Pierre Salinger...
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, seems, after 38 years, as familiar as inherited folklore. It is the mid-19th century New England saga of the flinty, greedy. God-bedeviled, lust-maddened Cabot clan and its internecine struggle over the family farm. To possess it. the sons wish their father dead, brother plots against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, seduces his son to obtain an heir, and murders the infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman...
...Pigs; he also denied them the air cover that might have given them a chance. But there remained even more basic problems of principle. Should the U.S. pay ransom to sustain Castro's Communist regime? And if so. should it be done with such look-folks-no-hands clan-destineness...
...true that the reason why juniors have such bad seats for today's game is that the Kennedy Clan has reserved half the Stadium. The real problem is that the seniors turned out enmasse-with dates...
...approval, are thought up, not noted down. Her menagerie is too various to be a mere assemblage from the parts-bin of relatives' tics and friends' twitches. The best of her originals are members of the remarkable Minot family (Mrs. Fay Dines on Zebra), a Hudson River clan that has subsisted for 200 years on no income at all. The Minots live by dining out, and walk safely the precarious line between guesthood and sycophancy by balancing good fellowship with mordant truth telling. For an author who does not resort to burlesque, this is not an easy notion...