Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dowling recalls a situation two years ago, in which a resident tutor's 13-year-old daughter was made uncomfrotable by a student in the House who become attached to her and followed her around...
LISA HILL of Aurora, Ill, is a suburban housewife who spends much of her time thinking of creative ways to raise more than $100,000. The money she and her husband collect will go to their three-year-old daughter, Jorie, but not for her college education. Jorie suffers from tyrosinemia, a rare liver disease which obstructs her blood supply, lowers the level of her infection-fighting white blood cells, and leaves her susceptible to serious internal bleeding. Moreover, a 50 percent chance exists that her liver will become cancerous. According to her doctors. Jorie's only hope for survival...
...Lisa Hill's fundraising experiment might last long after her daughter's eventual operation. And Wauconda, a town of roughly 6000 citizens, continues to pool its resources for Brett. Even a nursing home there conducted a "Rock for Brett" rocking chair marathon. Yet there are numerous other children around the country who also need help--children who may not live in towns like Wauconda or Geneva, or whose parents may be too distraught or too busy to engage in elaborate fundraising. For parents--and especially for their terminally ill children--certain experiments might be therapeutic as well...
...vigné even found cause for amusement when her son Charles confided that his various love affairs had been interrupted by about of impotence. "We laughed uproariously," she writes her daughter. "I told him that I was delighted that he had been punished for his sins at the precise point of origin." She could not resist communicating the dictum that was pronounced upon Charles by Ninon de 1'Enclos, the celebrated courtesan: "His soul is made of mush, his body of wet paper and his heart is like a pumpkin fricasseed in snow...
Mossiker has excerpted too many letters that dwell on Mme. de Sévigné's excessive love for her daughter. In translating the letters the author has frequently coarsened the elegant language of the original. She uses contemporary jargon and cliches-"peer group," "life-style," "role models"-to describe the world of 17th century aristocrats. "One of the great mistresses of the art of speech," as Virginia Woolf characterized Mme. de Sévigné, is said by Mossiker to have "verbalized as naturally as she breathed." Even so, the French writer's voice carries, resonating across...