Word: cousine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the beams on which so many people had stretched out. Before I left Cambridge, I had been told, "If you speak with someone at Antioch for five minutes, it is assumed you will sleep with him." This had caused a moment of uneasiness about going to visit a cousin of mine there, but he was a good guide. I asked him about the intimacy I felt at the Feast, and he told me that it was in this house in "the glen" that most of the T-groups were held. Memories must have been rampant, since almost everyone...
...Sato was honest to a fault about the early days of her marriage to Sato, a cousin. It was a match that, like many of the time, had been arranged while she was still in primary school. Her first shock as a bride came when she realized that her husband was consorting with geisha girls, Japan's professional entertainers, and was spending more than half the family budget on them. "I really dreaded geisha girls," she recalled. Her eldest son almost threw a rock at a geisha whom he saw walking with his father...
...Myths. With other partners in other places, the British Rothschilds are quietly working up half a dozen similar syndicates. The London-based family had long been under the shadow of its wealthier cousins, the Paris Rothschilds, and of more imaginative British merchant bankers. Now the firm is catching up, as Rothschilds always seem to do. Edmund de Rothschild, 52, remains the senior partner, but the man who is taking an increasingly vocal role is his first cousin, Evelyn de Rothschild, 37. Unlike Edmund, who is active in a largely ceremonial way, Evelyn is pursuing a more aggressive family stewardship...
...City, the British Rothschilds retain their prestigious positions as gold broker to the Bank of England and substantial dealers in foreign exchange. Since 1966, they have entered industrial ventures with Britain's National Provincial Bank and with four Continental firms, including Baron Guy's Paris bank and Cousin Edmond's* Banque Privee in Geneva. In May, the firm assembled a syndicate that lent $15 million to Hungary, the first direct credit by Western lenders to an East bloc country. Three months ago, its U.S. affiliate bought the Georg Jensen chain of New York-area specialty shops...
...Rothschilds often have the same or similar first names. Edmund is English; his third cousin Edmond is French...