Word: forebearer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safely the precarious line between guesthood and sycophancy by balancing good fellowship with mordant truth telling. For an author who does not resort to burlesque, this is not an easy notion to bring off, but Author Calisher does it delightfully. She ticks off the guestly ability of each Minot forebear, and then gets down to the problem of the current Minot, a moneyless widow who, in an age when the great houses are closing, mortally fears that she will be reduced to taking a position as secretary to a grim old birdfancier...