Word: franked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...selection of the 100 most important people of the century, TIME has chosen a score who articulate the longings of the time they lived in. There are the extraordinary tales: of Charles Lindbergh's courage, Mother Teresa's selflessness, Marilyn Monroe's exuberance, Pele's superhuman skills, Anne Frank's immortality. And the parables: the Kennedy melodrama, the latter-day silence of Muhammad Ali, the brutal grace of Bruce Lee's art, the all-too-human Diana, Lindbergh's dalliance with Hitler. Iconoclasm is inherent in every icon, and heroes can wear different faces in the afterlives granted them...
...Randolph Hearst, fell on hard times, she sold off her real estate, stocks and jewelry to keep his creditors at bay. There was the scandal of Charlie Chaplin, who married the very young Oona O'Neill and actually got to live happily ever after with her. And of course Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, battling and drinking in their epic '50s melodrama. Ernest Hemingway said all great love affairs end in tragedy: either disillusion sets in and people "settle" or separate, or one member of the affair dies, leaving the other alone. By that reckoning, all romances are equal...
Between 1940 and 1942, I saw Anne Frank nearly every day. We were almost the same age, but she was more mature than I was. She was interested in clothes and in film stars and in boys even. She was always laughing and giggling and always the center of attraction. At that time, my family had just fled Austria and moved to Amsterdam, and I spoke very bad Dutch. But she'd say, "Come and meet my father because he'll speak German with you." Which I did. And Otto Frank was extremely kind. He and his family had fled...
...after the war was over, my mother married Otto Frank. They had both lost so much. She and I had survived Auschwitz. His life was a mess. He talked continuously of Anne. They had been very close. He had heard from friends about her last days in Bergen-Belsen--how she didn't think her parents had survived, how her sister Margot got typhus and died, and that Anne, thinking she was the only one left, just gave...
...love her. Still, he was grateful to have Anne's words and to find they had power to influence the world. The book, and working on it, I think it saved him. Eva Schloss wrote Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank...