Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that "Funtown" is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental...
What finally melted Franco's heart was little eight-day-old Elena Maria Isabel Dominica de Silos, daughter of Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos, and Greek Princess Sophie, and, most important, Don Juan's first grandchild. With that in mind, Franco allowed the would-be king to return for 36 hours for the christening, then dropped in on the affair and had a rare 20-minute chat with the exile. What did they talk about? Well, Franco has five grandchildren himself...
Divorced. Norman Mailer, 39, novelist (The Naked and the Dead); by his second wife, Jeanne Campbell Mailer, 34, daughter of the Duke of Argyll, and columnist for her grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook; on grounds of incompatibility; after 20 months of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico...
Abstract influence on the figure is found sensationally in a nude, raped, maimed Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus, painted by Larry Rivers (for Show Magazine) to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th birthday. Willem de Kooning's Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point cocks the abstract expressionist's eye at nature. There is even the genial easel tradition in Raphael Soyer's portrait of his painting twin Moses...
Frightened Man. Emma was the daughter of a small town lawyer who, by her own testimony, had provided her with "exquisite home-training and refinement." Poor Hardy was born the son of a mason. Soon after their marriage she was belittling her husband in public; Robert Louis Stevenson's wife remembered Hardy as "a pale, gentle, frightened little man that one felt an instinctive tenderness for, with a wife-ugly is no word for it!" While Hardy suffered his fright in silence, Emma kept score of her numerous grievances against him in a notebook titled "What I Thought...