Word: grandchildren
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Periodically, the Emperor and Empress receive their five surviving children (two daughters are dead) and ten grandchildren. Rigid court protocol requires that the receptions be held separately. The two sons and daughter of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko are royal. The seven children who belong to the Emperor's three daughters cannot be received at the same time because they are considered commoners; their mothers married commoners and thereby lost royal status...
Skinner nonetheless allows himself some relaxation. He drinks vodka and tonic in the late afternoon, sees an occasional movie, reads Georges Simenon detective novels once in a while, and enjoys the company of friends, his two children and his grandchildren. It sounds fulfilling, but a poignant passage from a personal journal several years ago suggests an underlying sadness: "Sun streams into our living room. My hi-fi is midway through the first act of Tristan and Isolde. A very pleasant environment. A man would be a fool not to enjoy himself in it. In a moment I will work...
...brutalize Israel? Will the self-concern of a nation defensively obsessed with its identity make Israelis narrow and provincial? Such questions-especially the first-are raised by the veterans whose memories of the lightning war in 1967 are presented in The Seventh Day. It is as if the grandchildren of the original messiahs had discovered the devil in themselves. Says one soldier: "People are horrified at themselves, at how they'd been able to kill...
...Yuletide question. The answer was Francis P. Church's editorial: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias." Mrs. Douglas, who had a daughter, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, served as a teacher and principal in New York City's public schools. Frequently called upon to read Church's reply around Christmas, she once remarked, "I am anonymous from January to November...
...symbolism of the murder act itself nor that of the conduct of the trial was lost on the Southern black population, particularly the middle class which had come to believe that the days of such barbarity had passed. Emmet Till's murder was notice served that the children and grandchildren were as expendable as their parents and grandparents had been and still were. The message that the dream was not only to be deferred but dismasted, disregarded and dispensed with provided the black South with fresh and indisputed evidence of the irrationality of its circumstance. A response was inevitable...