Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roosevelt's name has brought the city's Negro and Jewish leaders flocking to support him. To counter that, Yorty recently embarked on a whirlwind courtship of Los Angeles' minority groups. In the space of five days, he lunched with the Independent Orthodox Rabbis, had cocktails with leaders of the city's Mexican community, dined with the local Chamber of Commerce in Chinatown, introduced Martin Luther King Jr. at a World Affairs Council luncheon, attended a reception of Hungarian community leaders, and planned to appear at a dinner honoring Cardinal Mclntyre...
...humanity seems more precarious than Ben Lewis'. The son of the town's Mexican grande dame and of its late county sheriff (whose memory had been honored with Ben's appointment to the bench), he just can't seem to cope in courtship or in the court. As a suitor, he wavers between the comely Lutheran schoolteacher, who, he fears, after their first kiss, "lay awake all night awaiting labor pains," or a Mexican cousin he "would have ravished, in Fielding's glorious words," only to be prevented by her "timely compliance." His confusion leads...
Died. Bessie Love Merryman, 100, the Duchess of Windsor's dowager aunt and her constant chaperone throughout the royal courtship, a hard-boiled Yankee who advised Edward in the midst of his dilemma between Cupid and crown, "You can always marry someone else; you can never again be King"; in Washington...
...record of Jamestown has all the theatrical trappings of an achievement to be honored in a national holiday. Like the Pilgrims, the Virginia colonists barely survived their first years in the New World. Like the Pilgrims, they persevered. Against Miles Standish's bungled courtship of Priscilla Alden, the Jamestown legend can put the capture of John Smith by Powhatan and his rescue by Pocahontas. The counterpart of the Pilgrim's harvest feast in Virginia was the arrival of a relief expedition on June...
...courtship of Franchise, Picasso didn't show her his etchings-he showed her how to etch. Since she was a full 40 years younger than he, she had to pass acid-test encounters with Gertrude Stein, Braque, Matisse, Cocteau, and a dozen other greats before she could share his life. Yet, judging from her memoirs, crammed with incredible recall, she was a cool creature who passed the tests but, instead of sharing his life, only came to understand...