Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides examines the limits to which a man's blind ambition can push him in the appalling story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his own daughter for the sake of military victory. As a wronged wife and wounded mother, Irene Papas is a vessel of chained intensity...
...doctors had warned him against swimming because of a slight muscular complaint, Holt felt that the sea air and the relaxation would do him good. So early on an overcast Sunday morning, he picked up four friends-Portsea Neighbors Alan Stewart and Mrs. Marjorie Gillespie, Mrs. Gillespie's daughter Vyner, and Vyner's boy friend, Martin Simpson-and all went looking for a place to swim and sunbathe. "I know," Holt suggested. "Let's go to Cheviot Beach" -a lonely, rocky stretch 21 miles from Holt's beach home, and one of the most dangerous beaches...
...were obtained when 2,000 Britons were asked to identify U Thant. Only 58% of the chaps in the street could place U Thant correctly as U.N. Secretary-General. Ah well, he still made out better than Svet-Icma Alliluyeva, who was identified by 51% as Franco's daughter, Khrushchev's daughter, or "the religious bloke with the Beatles...
Cheese Merchant's Daughter. Christiansen business got its start in Billund during the early 1930s when his father, a carpenter unable to find work in the depressed village, began making wooden toys in his workshop. Naming his enterprise Lego, a contraction for the Danish leg godt (meaning play well), Ole Kirk Christiansen peddled his toys by bicycling about in the surrounding countryside. When Godtfred reached 14 he dropped out of the village school to join his father, after World War II helped swing Lego into the manufacture of plastic toy animals...
...quiet but intense man who married the daughter of the cheese merchant in a neighboring village, Godtfred Christiansen today runs his business in a complex of modern buildings that he has put up around his father's old workshop. With little formal education, he reads so haltingly that he prefers to have aides deliver reports orally-but he makes up for all that with a sharp business mind. To market his product in Europe, for example, Christiansen shunned toy wholesalers to set up his own network of 13 sales branches. He explains: "We would have disappeared in the multitude...