Word: fam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). "No Skill or Special Knowledge Required" is the second part of the four-part John Hop kins' drama, Talking to a Stranger, which relates the events leading to a suicide through the eyes of the dead woman's fam ily. The daughter gave her view first; this time it is the father's turn...
There was a time when Ponelle seemed to be more concerned with chi chi than with character. Scion of a fam ily that owns some of the best vineyards in Beaujolais, he pursued an aimless study of existentialism, political science and art history at the Sorbonne. Turning to art, Ponelle was fascinated by early 16th century French and Dutch mannerists. This influence was quite pronounced in his first theatrical sets for a 1954 Berlin production of Luigi Nono's ballet, The Red Coat. Composer Hans Werner Henze, a boyhood friend, later asked Ponelle to design a production...
Aghast, his father wangled a job transfer to Michigan and told Burt that his next school would be an Eastern board ing school. Burt laughed in his father's face and disappeared for three weeks. When he returned, it was to announce his enlistment in the Marines. The fam ily now lives in Michigan. Burt is a pfc. in Viet...
They told of DeSalvo's own sadism, of his cruelty to animals, of his witnessing unnatural sex acts within his own fam ily. By the time DeSalvo was an adult, said the defense, "there had developed one of the most crushing sexual drives that psychiatric science has ever encountered." Between 1962 and 1964, the drive erupted into the 13 sex murders that terrified the Boston area. DeSalvo was a violent schizophrenic, said the defense experts, and he was unquestionably insane...
...Charles, who died five days after James, George, who died at 14, Eileen, who died last year, myself, Eva, who died in 1957, I think, Florence, who is still living, and Mabel, the youngest, who died at 17. James loved her." The James who so dominates the fam ily is James Joyce, and his sister, May Joyce Monaghan, 74, was talking about him during a visit to New York on the 82nd anniversary of his birth. "Jim, as we used to call him, was very gentle and quiet. He wasn't a fighter, you know. He used...