Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JOHN CHEEVER never beat his daughter with a coat hanger: he never made her eat raw meat on her hands and knees: and he never hit her over the head with a bottle of bathroom cleaner...
...reward the class for their good behavior by having John tell them a story. Later, he told his own children so many legends about his life that they seldom knew what to believe. The fact is, John Cheever glided effortlessly into a world of fiction and, according to his daughter, he sometimes stayed exclusively in his imaginary surroundings for months. Suicidal drinking bouts, long talks with his canine companions, and a career steeped in fictional fantasy tell the story of a man often incapable of facing reality...
...Fred graduated college, the two began living together in Boston, with Fred supporting his kid brother until the latter broke the ice as a writer. The attachment conjured up some pretty strong feelings for John, who soon felt compelled to cut the arrangement short. As Cheever later told his daughter, his love for his brother was the most complicated and powerful in his life: "When it became apparent that it was an ungainly closeness, I packed my bag and shook his hand and left." But the relationship triggered Cheever's emotional obstinacy, his unwillingness to let people in close...
Yvette D. Roubideaux '85 is the daughter of the first Indian to become a lawyer in the state of South Dakota, and graduated at the top of her class as the only minority in her school. In Roubideaux's town of Rapids City, South Dakota, all the Indians lived on the "bad" side of town. She lived and went to school on the "good" side. "People at home don't tell Polish jokes, they tell Indian jokes," she says. She heard them all the time, because nobody could believe that she could be both Indian and intelligent...
...ailments, she is about to be packed off to a nursing home, a dread prison from which 75% of those who enter never emerge. Kate Quinton's Days, first published in The New Yorker, is the true story of the efforts, made largely by Claire, her partially disabled daughter, and some dedicated social workers, to help Kate come home. The return could not have occurred without an enlightened program for home care of the elderly, still in the experimental stage. But it is the human story that makes this account so affecting. Susan Sheehan uses a pains taking documentary...