Word: great-grandchildren
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...insult to the black man's pride. This extravaganza staged in the poor country of Central Africa is not to be criticized for its lavishness. It lifts the hearts and eyes of millions of depressed people. It gives them something to dream about and stories for their great-grandchildren...
...success seems to derive from their being around at a point in the history of the family when it was possible to do the kind of study they had in mind. Their conduits to the Rockefeller family secrets were members of the alienated fourth generation of the dynasty, the great-grandchildren of the first John D. Rockefeller, the first members of the family who were not accustomed to being completely in control of the people around them. These Rockefeller Cousins apparently gave Collier and Horowitz access to parts of the vast family archives without trying, as their parents and grandparents...
...lives of a family in the Midwest, told from different points of view and from different narrative modes, is at times a haunting reminder of The Sound and the Fury. In many respects, Woiwode's story of the Neumiller family, beginning with great-grandfather, and continuing through three more generations to the contemporary great-grandchildren, recounts the disintegration of a family in the Midwest. The great-grandfather made his living as a farmer, his son was an honest farmer, and whenever members of the succeeding generations lose touch with themselves, they return to the land and the honest work there...
...each breakfast reader of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post to his own vision of colonial expansion. This is the age of Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain. The exuberant correspondent foresees a "brave system of state-aided - almost state-compelled - emigration" to "regions of possibil ity" where "the great-grandchildren of the crossing-sweeper and the sandwichman sport by the waves . . . sing aloud for joy in the beauty of their home and the pride of their race...
...terrestrial life spans. If their spacecraft traveled close to the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.), as a matter of fact, so little time would elapse for the astronauts compared with the experience of people back on earth that they might return home to meet their own great-grandchildren...