Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened newly restored Washington Old Hall, 800-year-old home of the ancestors of George Washington. He was suddenly confronted by a prim, grey-haired gatecrasher. The uninvited guest: Gary Lady Schuster, 88, widow of a titled physics professor. Her ticket of admission: a lineage chart showing her direct descent from John Washington, the first President's great-grandfather, who sailed to America in 1657. Offering a glad hand, Ambassador Aldrich glowed: "A Washington? Welcome home...
...cure a wild blend of How to Win Friends and influence People with what Riesman calls the "other-directed" personality. Bottled under the label Contralism, author Harrington's idea is not a now one, but it is a vivid satire on the life of the conformist and his descent into modiocrity...
...week as Argentina's new President, replacing deposed Strongman Juan Perón: Major General Eduardo Lonardi. 59, a career officer whose name was unknown to most of his countrymen one week earlier Origins. Born Sept. 17, 1896. in Buenos Aires, son of a music teacher of Italian descent. Family name was originally Leonardi Military Career. Graduated from the national military academy as artillery lieutenant. Taught tactics at Superior War College in 1930s. Appointed Argentine military attaché in Santiago, Chile in 1943, where he succeeded Colonel Juan Perón who had been suspected of espionage by Chilean...
...story outline is familiar enough to newspaper readers: Angel Chavez, a teenage boy of Mexican descent, is on trial for the murder of a girl who died of a heart attack when Angel made a crude pass at her. Glenn Ford, as a young university law instructor who is out for trial experience, takes on the boy's case in association with a shrewd legal eagle played by Arthur...
Miss Julie chronicles the descent of the last member of a degenerate noble family into the open arms of the ambitious and amoral family coachman. Today, 67 years after the play was first produced, the social implications of such a liaison have lost much of their urgency. Sjoberg realized that and emphasized Strindbergh's nearly Freudian character study. Unfortunately, he did not quite succeed--Julie still remains, if not actually dull, at least somewhat remote...