Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stockholder in the LBJ Co., and its treasurer until December 1963. He handled many of Lyndon's personal and financial affairs, looked after the lobbyists for him, kept tab on the Texas delegation in Congress. He named one of his six children Lyndon, and his daughter Beth, now at Marquette University, became one of Luci Baines Johnson's closest friends...
...turned up at Stamford circuit court to stand trial for serving liquor to minors. Francis Dutcher, a vice president of Johns-Manville Corp., and his wife Nancy pleaded nolo contendere; he explained that he and his wife had given a small dinner before the dance for his teen-age daughter, who had been away at school for two years. "We thought long and hard before we held the party because we had never served alcoholic beverages in our home to young people before. Had we known it was against the Connecticut law, we would never have done so." He ordered...
...same as waves on an oscilloscope? One artist has an answer. He is John Goodyear, 34, an associate professor of art at Rutgers University, whose work consists of gently moving colored lattices (above). Not as chilly an artist as most oppers, he lets his eight-year-old daughter pick his colors. Says Goodyear: "I want to include real space in my paintings, to squeeze it, negate it, play in it." From all that caprice, come surprises, and there is always the possibility of more. Says he, "These realities in some sense not conceived by man give us insight into...
...Ghelderode sets Miss Jairus, for example, in the house of a merchant in medieval Bruges. As the merchant Jairus and three old hags who are professional mourners keep a drunken vigil over his dead daughter, the daughter's finance suddenly brings in a sorcerer who has been confounding the local clerics and physicians. The finance, Jacquelin, cannot stand to lose Miss Jairus and demands that the sorcerer awake...
...want nothing," she promises. And this the writer, sick now of passions, feels he can give her. They become lovers, and he learns that she wants a great deal more. She learns he has a wife, a daughter...