Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...station emerge a gruff man, probably the caretaker, and his toothless wife, whose single braid dangles two feet below the point of her kerchief. Also a daughter, her rosy face alight with mischief, and two dogs nearly as white as the snow. The man has the look of a lighthouse keeper whose island of solitude is being turned into a marina...
...form of a familiar family hunting for a dream house along the gulf: Lex Graham, the ambitious colleague who undermined Arnie at the university; Lex's sleek wife, who is eager to resume the affair she and Arnie once conducted; and Lex's cherished daughter, a high school belle who has reached just the right age to have her head turned by Arnie's romanticism. Such sun-drenched perplexities are home ground for Author Spencer, who for more than three decades has been publishing subtle, meticulous fiction about her native Mississippi (The Voice at the Back Door...
...poetry. But critical fascination with psychoanalysis, combined with the shaliownes of popular opinion, reduced the accepted view of Plath's overwhelming irony and lostered further misconceptions Libby's reasessment of Plath does not lapse into sensationalism Her poetry, he argues, concerns itself more with the nature of the mother daughter relationship than with an impersonal death. In the process of exploring the idea of a mother. Plath discovered and dramatized Carl Jung's idea of mothers as "archetypal forces operating in the collective unconscious" Plath's identification with a destructive mother gives her poetry a jurid power--which paradoxically brings...
Because of the attacks on his wife and daughter-and the fact that the government has refused permission for his mother to immigrate-he is concentrating these days on another dream: a house he is building in his home town of Trabzon, on the Black Sea. "It's large, very large, 3,300 square feet in size," he says, gesturing expansively. "It will be a home big enough...
DIED. Justin Whitlock Dart, 76, cantankerous California industrialist and longtime member of Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet"; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Dart joined Walgreen drugstores as a stock clerk in 1929 after marrying the boss's daughter and eventually became the chain's general manager. In 1941 he moved to the Rexall Drug Co. and turned it into Dart Industries, a conglomerate he merged with Kraft Foods in 1980. Dart recognized Reagan's political potential and worked to advance his career, but refused to accept any high-level post as a reward. Said Dart...