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...course of this riveting account of the search for her father's roots, Germaine Greer reveals that the ancient motto of her family is Memor esto, or "Be mindful of your ancestors." In her case, obsessed might be a more accurate adjective. Until he died in 1983, a wasted shell of a man after serving in the Australian army during World War II, Reg Greer had rebuffed inquiries about his past. Germaine's mother seemed not to care. But after her father's death, Germaine, best known as the author of the 1970 feminist treatise The Female Eunuch, embarked...
...where she grew up, traveled to Manhattan, made a hit record with her own song called Lollipop. Later, she moved Columbia's Mitch Miller to frenzies of promotional enthusiasm with two more of her darkling juvenile fancies-Headlights and Stop Laughing at Me ("I will always have that memor-ee"). Most promising of the fledgling singer-composers is a 19-year-old Juilliard piano student named Neil Sedaka, who scored a hit with his recording (for RCA Victor) of a loosely rocking ditty called The Diary ("When it's late at night/ What is the name you write...
Wendell Phillips, son of the first mayor of Boston, said in a memor- able speech: "Revolutions are not made; they come." The trouble with Brazil's revolution (TIME, July 14, et seq.) was that it would...
...most interesting and exciting period of the CRIMSON'S history was that of competition with the Harvard Daily News in 1894-95, a period made memor...
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