Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prospero seems to step quite abruptly from the world of magic to the world of men. He does make that step, but it should be prepared for. The relinquishment of supernatural powers is part of Prospero's own reconciliation. He drowns the book that lost him his kingdom (a cousin of the books that lost Faustus his soul) and reassumes his temporal power and role...
MacLeish, Eric Sevareid, and Eleanor Roosevelt's first cousin and childhood friend, Mrs. Francis Cole...
...indifferent mother died young and whose doting father provided meager solace to her. "He began drinking when she was quite small," Mrs. Cole recalls chattily. "Eventually he was sent off to a little town in Vir ginia." A painfully unpromising New York debutante, Eleanor became the bride of her cousin F.D.R. and seemed destined for a life of no particular distinction as a self-effacing wife, a frequent mother, a perfectly conventional matron of her day. The rush of great and terrible events in World War I jolted her into a realization that she herself might wield some power...
Charlie Njoku, Harvard's outside left, leads the Ivy League in scoring with six goals in four games. He scored twice in the 3-2 comeback win against. Penn last Saturday. Njoku's cousin, Chris Ohiri, is Harvard's all-time high soccer scorer. Ohiri notched 48 goals in his 1961-3 career...
...then the next two years solidifying the personal ties he has made. Still, he may leave a weak and politically worthless impression: "George is a nice guy, and I'd like to give 'em my number one, but--has been a good councillor, and besides which, he got cousin...