Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from 20% to 40% of the bus and underground employees in London and Birmingham. On the plus side, West Indian cricket stars have played in English professional leagues, while the fad for American-style (and Negro-based) rock 'n' roll has helped make sultry Shirley Bassey, daughter of an English mother and a Jamaican father, one of the top two or three British women singers...
...unspecified "it" that is "moving west." Mother Eileen Heckart mangles French and Italian phrases and listens raptly to off-key recordings of her opera-diva days. She is a Venus's-fly-trap who has devoured "Fa" (he is too contemptible to deserve the other syllable) and dragooned Daughter Lakme (Susan Anspach) and Son Sigfrid (Robert Drivas) into performing strange little rituals like strewing the air with paper petals and striking heraldic poses with Wagnerian swords...
Died. Joshua Macmillan, 20, grandson of Britain's retired Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and a second-year student at Oxford's brainy Balliol College; from an apparent overdose of drugs; two days after returning from a Madrid vacation with his fiancée, Kara Yatsevitch, 18, daughter of an American diplomat stationed in Spain; in his room at Oxford...
...Carrie was republished and acclaimed "a work of genius." Iconoclast Dreiser lapsed into respectability. He took over as top editor of Butterick's magazines (feminine fashions), snagged H. L. Mencken as a contributor, wrote perfervidly moral editorials -and lost his job when he tried to seduce the daughter of an assistant editor...
...American Tragedy, published in 1926, established him as everybody's hero. The story of a naive young man in a hurry who murders his pregnant mistress so he can marry the boss's daughter, it was acclaimed by Joseph Wood Krutch as "the greatest American novel of our generation." Within a year it made Dreiser $40,000 in royalties and $80,000 in film rights...