Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is actually true. Browsing through the alphabetized entries in this novel is not only possible but pleasurable. Under "Brankovich, Avram," for example, a figure of speech is given new life: "The daughter had taken all her best features from her mother, who after birth remained forever ugly." The definition of kaghan includes the following detail: "The kaghan always shared power with a coruler and was senior to him only to the extent that he was the first to be wished a good day." And then there is "Cyril," which sets forth its subject's illustrious life, including his attempt...
...talk about what they do. They use pseudonyms and avoid the word AIDS, especially around the children. They don't want neighbors shouting epithets at them. Some of them have not told their families because they want to be welcomed at Christmas dinner, or because they're afraid a daughter-in-law will stop bringing the grandchildren by. "They say we have nothing to fear but fear," says one. "But that's enough...
This upswing in Cheever's respectability accelerated after his death in 1982. Two books about him have since appeared: a memoir by his daughter Susan, Home Before Dark (1984), and Scott Donaldson's John Cheever: A Biography, published earlier this year. More collections are on the way. After legal wranglings, a compromise between the Cheever estate and a Midwestern publisher has been reached: a selection of the author's uncollected stories will appear next spring. And Cheever's private journals will surely be made public soon. All of this activity prompts a question. If Cheever's early obscurity was unjustified...
...Stand up to the challenge. Fight against overwhelming odds. Overcome the enemy." The late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto regularly exhorted his eldest daughter with such maxims. Benazir proved to be a keen listener. "In the stories my father had told us over and over again," she writes in her new autobiography, Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of the East, "good always triumphed over evil...
Nothing in her upbringing as the indulged eldest daughter of a wealthy landholding Sindhi family, or in her education at Harvard and Oxford, prepared her to shoulder her father's legacy so much as the trials she endured after his execution. Jailed or detained for more than five years, and exiled for two more, she returned triumphantly in 1986 as the leader of the Pakistan People's Party (p.p.p.). Deaf to criticism of her autocratic father, she seems determined to do what is necessary to restore his reputation. TIME correspondents Ross H. Munro and Edward W. Desmond spoke with...