Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John D. Rockefeller IV, the son of John D. III, is by far the best known and most political of the Cousins. "Jay" went to West Virginia in 1964 for an "American grass-roots experience" and has been there ever since. After two years as a poverty worker, he switched to politics because he figured it was the way "to get things done." From the state legislature he became secretary of state in 1968, then suffered a setback in 1972 when he lost his bid for Governor. "Jay" is now president of West Virginia Wesleyan College, a small, coeducational Methodist...
...Jay Cocks...
...Jay Kaufman is a television cameraman, lanky, easygoing, well liked. Focusing on the hard legs of show girls and the putty faces of comedians is only his job. His life is with Sandy, their two small sons, and with New York City itself. As an amateur still-photographer, Jay loves to roam the city and poke his lenses into the varied faces of his fellow New Yorkers. Sometimes, when startled out of their reveries, they poke back. At home he arranges his photos on the bed and casually plans to publish them in a book...
...Jay is ripe with innocence. He is old enough to have savored love and father hood but still too young for the restlessness and self-recrimination that often accompany the onset of middle age. It is difficult to think of rebellious cells fanning out through his body, turning his blood to water. For Sandy, whose life suddenly becomes a ritual of babysitting arrangements and hospital visits, death infiltrates past the eggshell phrases of doctors, through false hopes, the increasingly embarrassed concern of neighbors, and even such things as her sudden piercing awareness that there is less laundry...
...inappropriate. The secret of her appeal and depth is that she is a ministering angel who also ministers to herself. She has an artist's sense of what is real and what is merely tactful. When her husband's doctor cops out and leaves her to tell Jay that his illness is incurable, Sandy's instincts are superb: "I wanted to do it while he was still able to walk. It seemed immoral somehow to tell a dying man the miserable and imminent truth when he was helpless, lying down in the very path of the words...