Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal sacrifices," says Dr. Carl Eisdorfer of the University of Miami. The support goes both ways. In fact private transfers of money and assets within families are just as likely, if not more likely to take place from old to young. "The traditional generosity of grandparents," says Author Lydia Bronte, formerly of the Carnegie Corporation, "now takes the form of helping with college tuition, down payment on a house, furniture -- not just a check every Christmas...
Harvard (7-3-1 overall, 3-1-1 Ivy) notched its first goal of the game at the 2:45 mark on the first of two Christine Burns scores. Center Martina Albright and wing Lydia Smith led the Harvard scoring chart with a goal and two assists apiece...
...screening I attended last year, a series of Nick Zedd shorts were shown on a portable screen in the now defunct Studio 54 on Queensbury Street in the Fenway. The audience lounged on the floor, passing around beer from a Bud suitcase to friends and strangers alike, while Lydia Lunch spouted profanities overhead...
...about Missie herself. What was she like? What kind of life did she have after the war? In a foreword, her brother George drapes her in a biographical purdah. He says only that Marie Vassiltchikov was born in 1917, one of the five children of Prince Illarion and Princess Lydia Vassiltchikov of St. Petersburg. The family left the Soviet Union in 1919 to live in Germany, France and Lithuania, then an independent republic. During the Depression of the 1930s, Missie and her sister Tatiana (a future Princess Metternich) sought work in Berlin. The diarist's fluent English landed...
...WOMEN'S MOVEMENT COULD muster the kind of certainty of purpose and unity of action displayed by the seven actresses who parade through Lydia Sargent's sharp-toothed comedy revue, there would be no need for a dramatization of the troubled past and uncertain future of feminism. But as the players constantly remind is in I Read About My Death In Vogue Magazine, the movement has not been so lucky...