Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story opens with Max Weber, most of whose works are untranslatable from the German (although some people make feeble attempts) in heated debate with his daughter, Charisma Culpepper. "But, my child, you have been spontaneous and variable for too many years and, I might add, with independent causal effect. It is time you became routinized," Herr Weber blusters out. Charisma, whose independent advantages were causing the routine effects all evening, is horrified at the prospect: "I may even become feudal--and based on benefices," she wails. The domineering father, not to be swayed, commissions Emil Durkheim to find his daughter...
...Reckford, the bibliophile, also directed; Walt Jewell produced. Marshall Moriarty as Weber coughed exceedingly well, and Emilie Rahman as his daughter was enticing. Reckford, as Hobbes; Charles Bevard as Locke, and Judd Conway as Rousseau were properly raucous. Jack Henrikson made a bellowing Beowulf; Mary Doyle, a grucsome Grendel's mother; and Alan Horsley, a mushy Mathiez...
...When he was in his 20s, no one stirred the Kaiser's dreams of empire more than a pretty, blue-eyed American of good family and Protestant piety named Mary Esther Lee. After combing many volumes of letters she sent home from Europe, Alson Smith concluded that this daughter of a rich Manhattan grocer (and his own great-aunt) was the Kaiser's mistress. The course of modern German history might have been much different, he argues, if this American had not turned into a German nationalist...
...Daughter of Silence, West...
...instance, in "A Cold, Calculating Thing," it turns out that Ada Trimball's mother once slept with Ada's prospective beau to win him away from "a little chippy" for her daughter. (It didn't work.) In "In a Grove," Richard Warner goads an old enemy, William Grant, into sleeping with his new Mexican bride after lots of dirty talk, and then drills them both...