Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of Indians, Gandhi's friend Nehru is still the father-protector; he tirelessly travels all over his vast country to see and be seen by the people. Recently he visited remote Ladakh, in the Himalayas, where he had his picture taken with two local lamas. But except for Nehru, there is scarcely a major figure in India today who could command loyalty or respect should the 59-year-old Nehru follow Gandhi. Few can see beyond Nehru and his logical successor Patel...
...reason for this driving ambition baffles many a jaded Hollywood operative. Elizabeth has had just about everything that a moderately prosperous family with good connections could give her. Her father, Illinois-born Francis Taylor,* is an art dealer who used to be a European buyer for his uncle's art business, Howard Young Galleries. Her mother, Sara Sothern Taylor, once had a good part in a 1922 Broadway production of Channing Pollock's The Fool. Elizabeth grew up to seven in a handsome London house, and in a 15th Century lodge in Kent. Her family got around...
Lassie & Velvet. With the war coming on, the Taylors returned to the U.S. and settled in Beverly Hills, where father Taylor opened an art gallery. Cinemagnate J. Cheever Cowdin, a friend of the Taylors, wanted to sign eight-year-old Elizabeth for Universal almost as soon as he laid eyes on her. The Taylors said no. Elizabeth said yes, and carried her point...
...nearby church bells and a gnawing fear of practically everything. He violently loved his mother, described his feelings as "incest of the soul." Yet, as with almost all the women in his life, his love for her was tinged with jealousy and hate. When she died and his father married the family housekeeper, he cast himself in the role of Hamlet...
...darkness around him, Strindberg saw only enemies, including his own wife, whom he suspected of deceiving him and being a Lesbian. Insanely jealous, he came to believe that Siri's children were not his (a suspicion he dramatized in his play, The Father). For a while Siri and August lived in a filthy old castle near Copenhagen, together with a mad Countess who played the hurdy-gurdy, a gypsy steward who practiced hypnotism, and a pack of wild dogs...