Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pelican is one of Strindberg's more harrowing achievements. Roughly, the story concerns the tragic changes in a family following the death of the father and the marriage of the daughter. The mother is in love with her newly acquired son-in-law, not realizing that he is interested only in the dead man's estate. These and other conflicts finally lead to a series of catastrophic confrontations in which the family, perhaps aided by the spirit of the dead father, turn against the mother and bring about the destruction of the entire household...
...repeat and repeat and repeat that short skirts are fine for women of all ages if they are worn with heavy, matching stockings and shoes. Of course when I design, I think of the youngest age. Today mothers like to copy their daughters. Except for you, Nicole. You are the daughter and your daughter is the mother...
...Wife Louise live in a modern, white house in Detroit's executive suburb of Bloomfield Hills. (Their daughter is married to a Chevrolet dealer in Florida, and their two sons-both Harvard law graduates-are lawyers). Of course Roche has a Cadillac, but he often test-drives a different car home from the production lines. He wears his responsibility as comfortably as an old shoe. When he got word last June of his promotion to a job that paid him $557,083 in 1965, he celebrated with Fred Donner and ex-President John Gordon by going...
...lived as mistress to the cigar-chomping Marquise de Belboeuf and published three novels. At 40, mostly recovered from Henri and somewhat disillusioned with dykes, Colette married Paris Publisher (of Le Matin) Henri de Jouvenel, and six months after the wedding gave birth to her only child, a daughter also named Colette...
...ignore. His admitted homosexuality got a fresh airing during his celebrated 1963 court fight. He had married Syrie Wellcome and fathered a child, and then was divorced in 1927. Maugham wanted to leave the bulk of his possessions to his secretary and male companion of 36 years. His daughter, Lady Glendevon, took Maugham to court, and after a lot of nasty publicity, he lost the case. Vowing, after The Summing Up, never again to sift through an old man's memories, Maugham changed his mind and published some bickering memoirs that included further recriminations against his daughter-leaving...