Word: great-great-grandson
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...redeeming process required of white America for the ravaging of blacks' humanity through America slavocracy--followed by six generations of institutionalized white supremacy or racism down to the 1960s--is still another century away. This, I fear, might sound rather un-Christian on my part--a great-great-grandson of African Methodist Episcopal clergymen--but I don't mean to sound that...
...whale is hunted down by the great-great-grandson of Captain Ahab, Lieut. General Ahab. Backed by the United Nations, Ahab blasts Moby Dick out of the water. From a land base, the intransigent mammal denies U.N. inspectors the right to see his spout, suggesting that Moby-Dick...
...written by Contributor John Skow, attests. By contrast, the British monarchy has enjoyed a favorable press in the U.S. ever since 1860, when Prince Edward, Queen Victoria's eldest son, visited the nation that had repudiated his family's rule. Edward's great-granddaughter Elizabeth and great-great-grandson Charles seem to have inherited his ability to evoke the admiration of Americans. Those with immediate experience of that talent include London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo, who reported on the meticulous preparations for the latest royal trip. She covered the Queen's second visit...
DIED. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, 83, retired Air Force major general who was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II for negotiating a truce with French soldiers during the Allied invasion of North Africa; in Brentwood, Calif. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J.P. Morgan, later helped set policy for NATO forces...
DIED. William Henry Vanderbilt, 79, farmer-philanthropist and sometime politician who served as Governor of Rhode Island from 1938 to 1940 and was the great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th century railroad magnate; of cancer; in Williamstown, Mass...