Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wealthy, conservative lawyer who was born in the old province of Burgundy in 1755. He sat out the French Revolution in America, then went home to re-establish himself in the elegant world of the hunt and the salon. He was Mme. Récamier's cousin and she doted on him. Though he was a much sought-after bachelor, his large and glittering acquaintance apparently took him for granted. He seldom appears in memoirs during an age when practically everybody wrote one. But what great company he must have been. To judge by his book...
...than a human being," and Nijinsky tore at his costume in a jealous rage when she upstaged him in a 1911 performance of Swan Lake. Though regarded as a national heroine in Czarist Russia, Ksches-smska's close association with the royal family-she later married Nicholas' cousin Andre and became Princess Ro-manovsky-Krassinsky-made her a target of the Bolsheviks, who sacked her St. Petersburg mansion during the 1917 revolution. Forced to flee the country in 1920, she later established a studio in Paris, where she taught for 35 years. Kschessinska was 63 when her farewell...
...White House," she says, "I saw what hard work it was. I don't see it as glamorous-it's everything that's unattractive." But if her husband decides to run, she will stand by him. "She is in awe of Ted," says a Kennedy cousin. "If he said, 'Jump,' she wouldn't argue or even ask why. She'd just ask, 'Head first or feet first...
This was the girl whom Franklin Roosevelt, a remote collateral, fell in love with and married in 1905, when she was 21 and he was a handsome, dashing 23-year-old law student. The marriage eventually proved a durable public triumph, but a pitiful private disaster. As one astute cousin put it, "She had already lived through so much unhappiness and then to have married a man with a mother like Cousin Sally...
...night before my cousin's graduation from High School, he and I stayed up all night. When 6 a.m. rolled around, we left for Mass at a poor Portuguese Church in the North End. Gathered there to hear Mass in Portuguese were strong women who appeared at peace; middle aged men with rough hewn hands and faces; tough and happy children. Many of those there that early probably came so they could get to their Sunday job on time...