Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alert, handsome woman in a red-orange dress sits up in bed as a friend ceremoniously combs her wet black hair. The cluster bomb that hit her home killed her 22-year-old daughter and injured the legs of her 16-year-old son. She was born in 1936; she knows all about war. She says she is comfortable in the Hotel Triomphe...
...MOTHER & DAUGHTER: THE LETTERS OF ELEANOR AND ANNA ROOSEVELT...
...exiled from his family for drunkenness and other sins. She was an awkward, serious girl, nicknamed "Granny" by her mother. She did arouse at least the admiration of her cousin Franklin, whom she married when she was 20, but her attitude toward sex, which she recommended to her daughter Anna, was the proper one for upper-class women of her time: it was an ordeal to be borne. In 1918. as a young mother of five children, she was crushed, but not quite destroyed, to learn that her dashing husband, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was having an affair...
...with F.D.R. over the Mercer affair, she found and gave her own kind of affection. One of the first of these idiosyncratic friendships was with Louis Howe, an early political aide of her husband, a man described as ugly and misshapen, an impossible choice for a lover. Yet her daughter Anna was shocked once to find her sitting at Howe's.feet as he stroked her hair. "No form of love is to be despised," Eleanor once copied into a diary, and the truth seems to be that she successfully conducted her sentimental friendships as if sex did not exist...
...beginning, nobody could have seemed less like a saint. Born in Brooklyn in 1897, the daughter of a lapsed Episcopal mother and an atheistic father whose holy passion was the race track, Day did not even become a Catholic until she was 30. At 15 she was reading Darwin. Marx soon followed. After dropping out of the University of Illinois, she went to work for $5 a week for a socialist daily, the Call, on New York's Lower East Side. One of her first assignments was to interview Leon Trotsky. Before she was 20, she became an editorial...