Word: descendantal
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Iron was in his name, of course, and in his family history and his social environment. He was born in Decatur, Ind., in 1906, the descendant of a 19th century blacksmith, and his sculptural language flowed with perfect naturalness out of a childhood in the part-mechanized heart of America...
Bush has always produced sophisticated albums; she even sings in German in a song on Lionheart. Her influences always came from Europe, where the bulk of her fans live. The inspiration of the new album, though, often comes from below the equator. "Pull Out the Pin," the song of a...
Flamboyant Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, fresh from his successful defense of Lynette "Squeaky" Frame in her legal appeal, begins working to "clear the name" of Samuel Mudd, the Maryland doctor found guilty of assisting John Wilkes Booth by giving the assassin medical succor during his escape. In return, grateful...
In this age of rancor, there is one political reconciliation that defies the national mood and grows stronger and deeper each year. A direct descendant of the elm tree that John Quincy Adams planted on the White House grounds in 1826 is now three years old and 14 ft. high...
The son of game-show magnate and CBS-TV president Louis G Cowan Paul grew up in a totally assimilated New York home. His father read Dickens' A Christmas Carol aloud each Christmas eve and never spoke of his impoverished father Jacob Cohen, the descendant of respected Lithuanian rabbis At...