Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luci Barnes Johnson primped nervously as she prepared for an East Room musicale by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But she let it all happen naturally, and the result was as fresh as a cherry blossom. "I don't really realize that I am a President's daughter," she told reporters, "and that I represent American youth. If I did, I would go out of my mind." It is best to be yourself, she went on, even if you "sometimes make mistakes, as I may be doing right now talking...
...Hands. Her recollections of a Brooklyn girlhood are somber. "It was pretty depressing, and I've blocked most of it out of my mind," she says. She never knew her father. He was a school teacher who died of a cerebral hemorrhage when his daughter Barbara Joan was a year old (1943). Her mother spent the next three years lying in bed, crying, and living on her brother's Army allotment checks until the checks stopped and she took an office job. Barbara spent her days in the hallways of the six-story brick apartment building they lived...
Producer Ray Stark was feeling his way and burning his fingers on almost everything he touched. A fabulously successful film producer (Seven Arts Productions), he had never before done a Broadway show. Furthermore his wife Frances is the daughter of Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein. So there were book problems right away. The actual Nicky was considered unacceptable as a leading man. He was a shiftless con man with a column of mercury for a spine, a criminal record, and a cavalier attitude toward Fanny's devotion and fidelity...
Building on this plot, Herr Kirst offers a satirical view of life in the upper echelons of the Wehrmacht as he follows the efforts of von Seydlitz-Gabler's wife to marry their daughter, Ulrike, to Tanz. Ulrike is in love with Lance Corporal Hartmann, who is being kept under cover after inadvertently surviving a skirmish that the German press, for propaganda purposes, reported as an atrocious slaughter. And Hartmann is a young naif (of the sort that seems obligatory in a German anti-war novel) who serves, in his pacifistic innocence, as an effective exponent of the author...
Robin's sisters and my Aunt's lily daughter Laughed and talked, and tinkled light as wrens If there were a little colony all hens To go walking by the steep turn of Sweetwater. Let them alone dear Aunt, just for one minute Till I go fishing in the dark of my mind...