Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Popova, a widow who so enrages a creditor that he challenges her to a duel, but they suffer the fate of operatic lightning-love and fall into each other's arms. The work is laced with musical and verbal wit. Widow Popova's complaints about her dead husband ("What could a poor, weak woman do / But humor his caprices,/ When acts more suited to a zoo / Took place with neighbors' nieces?") are set to an oompah rhythm and sardonic melody. Though The Bear is no immortal work from the Olympian heights of human creativity, it is blessed...
...Awful Choice." The McCarthys are the newest national political family in the race, but they have come on with elan. Abigail McCarthy, 53, a matronly former schoolteacher, is as independent-minded as her husband. Though plagued by virus attacks earlier this spring and then by gallstone trouble, she has stumped valiantly through all the primary states, frequently on heavy schedules of her own. Even so, she candidly admits that she did not want Gene to run for President. "But I have an awfully bad record," she adds. "When he decided to run for Congress, I thought it was nice being...
...Nixon family has grown remarkably glamorous since the days of the Republican cloth coat. Pat, as svelte as she was in 1960 and considerably more chic, generally stays close to her husband rather than striking out on her own. "One spokesman in the family is enough," she says. But in years of campaigning with Dick, she has developed an easy grace with the voters. Daughters Tricia, 22, and Julie, 19, have blossomed into political charmers, paragons of wholesome comeliness in a nonconformist...
After he began working on the Bruin, Weiss found a double inspiration in a U.C.L.A. husband-wife anthropology team, Lewis and Sally Binford. "They're heretics," he says. "Sharp, biting, absolutely brilliant." He switched to anthropology, wants to teach it because it blends his desire to be scientifically precise and his interest in people. He has pushed his grades up to a 3.8 average in his major, has a four-year graduate fellowship at the University of New Mexico. He hopes to avoid military service as a conscientious objector...
...German agents during World War II. He also wept when his pet fox was pushed off the balcony by his maid in Beirut and killed. With every reason to hate him, Eleanor Philby can write: "Our marriage was perfect in every way. He was the most lovely and devoted husband and a marvellous father...