Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Isle of Man, a British crown possession in the Irish Sea, differs from the mother country in several respects. Taxes are lower, cats have no tails, and youths judged guilty of violent crimes are occasionally whipped with a birch...
EXPECTING. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 28, who is writing a biography of her mother, Pat Nixon; and David Eisenhower, 29, who is finishing a book on his grandfather, Dwight D. Eisenhower; their first child; this summer. The baby will be the first grandchild for former President Nixon...
...musicality of Shaw's language pervades the evening. His mother had a fine mezzo-soprano voice, and at the beginning of his journalistic career, he was a music critic signing himself Corno di Bassetto, which means basset horn. The cadences of his speeches are like arias, and Donnelly delivers them that way with an ingratiating Dublin inflection. Indeed, most of Shaw's greater plays could be transposed into operas, just as Pygmalion was made into My Fair Lady...
Only the 77-year-old Queen Mother, warm, charming and irrepressibly vivacious, holds up the royal side. After the German bombing of Buckingham Palace, she remarks, "the garden was inundated"- her voice drops to a scandalized whisper-"with rats...
...task force was chaired by Rochester, N.Y., Laywoman Virginia Davidson, wife of a retired Kodak executive and mother of four. The members, selected to represent various views in the church, included an openly homosexual young alumnus of Yale Divinity School and Historical Theologian Richard Lovelace, an articulate conservative from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. With typical Presbyterian thoroughness, they prepared a 198-page report that examines psychological data, social currents and especially the 13 Bible passages that deal with homosexuality...