Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED: MONEY, MADNESS AND THE FAMILY OF ROBERT LOWELL...
...neurotic, but neurotic's good!" quips Sarah Payne Stuart's family psychiatrist in Stuart's My First Cousin Once Removed, a painfully funny and poignant memoir about life in the Boston Brahmin Lowell clan (known best as a family running short on both money and sanity). The book centers specifically on the neurotic and manic depressive genius of Robert Lowell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning confessional poet-cum-activist and titular "first cousin" of the author's mother (hence the author is "removed" from him by one generation). Sarah Payne Stuart '73 treats "Bobby" (as the family called Robert Lowell...
...story are amusing but nevertheless tender accounts of what it meant to grow up in a world built entirely on a pretense of keeping up appearances. But just like all those lost and mentally unstable Lowells and Winslows (the author's equally snobbish relatives on the paternal side), Cousin itself is never quite sure what it is. At times it is a barrage of various bildungsroman tales, the coming-of-age stories of various Lowell and Winslow family scions. At other times it is a relentless catalogue of family members moving in and out of prep schools, relationships, asylums...
...Harvard teaches you how to think and then youcan do anything," said Daniel A. Cousin '00, whoanticipates only one change. "After that, it'slike career plasticity...
...used to want to be an Indian and a streetperformer," said Cousin, who plans on attendingmedical school. "That will have to be in additionto being a doctor...