Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short walks with her sister Lee Radziwill or Caroline, Jacqueline Kennedy stayed mostly out of public sight in the Georgetown house that she had borrowed from the Averell Harrimans. Press Secretary Pamela Turnure came and went; deliverymen made their rounds; friends and relations came to call. Dave Powers, her husband's Bos ton friend, stayed for lunch one day; Bobby Kennedy dropped in often. There were the holidays to plan for. They would be spent in Palm Beach, in a house borrowed from a family friend, C. Michael Paul, near the Joseph Kennedys. And, it was announced, after...
Jackie should be moved into her Georgetown home by mid-January. But what then? Travel abroad? A political role in 1964, as was rumored last week? No, said Secretary Turnure. Mrs. Kennedy plans to observe a full year of mourning for her husband, will dress in black, appear at no public engagements...
...beginning of Devi (The Goddess), the attractive young girl Donamayee teases a pet bird and is teased in turn by her husband. Then, suddenly revealed as a incarnation of the Mother Goddess, she finds herself worshipped by her family, adored by crowds of pilgrims. She sits enthroned in an incense-clouded temple; priests chant and bells clang...
...human. Her father-in-law is accused of precipitating a tragedy through his blind faith, of weighing down an innocent girl with the "burden of divinity." Yet Donamayee, who has always been rather vain, begins to believe in her own divinity; she cannot run away when her husband begs her to. Physically trapped as the key figure in a ritual, she becomes emotionally trapped by the ceremony. Even the audience comes close to believing that she is indeed a goddess...
Then she too expired, peering into her glass and lamely saying, "It certainly makes you want to cheer." In the touching silence, her husband exclaimed: "Let's drink to the roaring foothills and the hell with the hymn...