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...lent a certain acceptance to marrying a divorced woman, and no doubt many copycat marriages followed, some of them less than successful. It is noteworthy that most subsequent photos of the Duke showed a sad man. Now Prince Charles' marriage to Camilla has given cachet to marrying one's mistress and could lead to a rash of copycat marriages, some of which will be less than successful. Let's see whether Charles' future photos reveal a sad man. Diana Amsden Santee, California, U.S. Ancient Rivalries Re your article "Smoldering Hatreds," about the grudges between Japan and South Korea, and China...
...lent a certain acceptance to marrying a divorced woman, and no doubt many copycat marriages followed, some of them less than successful. It is noteworthy that most subsequent photos of the duke showed a sad man. Now Prince Charles' marriage to Camilla has given cachet to marrying one's mistress and could lead to a rash of copycat marriages, some of which will be less than successful. Let's see whether Charles' future photos reveal...
...back again to the present as others add critical commentary. The older generation, surprisingly, comes across as the most liberated. One "Auntie" argues persuasively for taking a married lover, explaining that, "...his bad breath, his hemorrhoid attacks, his flues," etc. are all for the wife while for the mistress, "he's always bleached and ironed, his teeth sparkle, his breath is like perfume," etc. Another older woman discusses the surgery that took fat from her rear and applied it to her bosom the better to keep her husband's attention. "Of course," she says, "this idiot doesn't know that...
Friday, April 15. Charolotte Gordon discusses “Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet.” 3 p.m. The Harvard Book Store. Free...
...Hitler's last acts was to get married. His acquiescent mistress Eva Braun (the dictator was in fact impotent) had yearned for years for the respectability of a wedding license, and now she was to achieve it. She wore a black taffeta afternoon dress with two gold clasps at the shoulders. A minor party official with the coincidentally appropriate name of Wagner (Hitler's favorite composer) was brought in from his militia post to perform the brief ceremony. As the law prescribed, both bride and groom swore that they were Aryans. Wagner signed the marriage certificate, glanced at his watch...