Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone. He accused musicians of deliberately misreading his music, publishers of trying to cheat him, friends of betraying him. Cooped up alone in his house, he feuded endlessly with servants over trivia, described in minute detail how "brutish" they were. But he reserved his sternest strictures for his nephew Karl...
...alone spell them, and scarcely troubled to attach more than an oblique meaning to them . . . He ran no risk of disseminating his feelings in the ordinary intercourse of humanity." Even while Beethoven was composing his finest works-the last quartets-his letters were concerned only with servants, publishers and nephew. Whence came the soaring grandeur and philosophic calm that characterize these works? The letters give no hint...
...Tale of Peter Rabbit (Vivien Leigh; Wonderland). Actress Leigh, with prams, St. James's Park and starched generations of nannies in her voice, makes her Peter sound a little like a nephew down on the holidays from school. Cozy without being cute...
...home, Rayburn went to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas for extensive medical tests. Surgical examination showed cancer of the lymphatic system-inoperable, incurable and spreading through his body. When he recovered consciousness, Mister Sam asked his doctors for the truth and got it. "This," Rayburn told a great-nephew, Robert Bartley Jr., "is the damnedest thing that ever got ahold...
...left for family troubles. With his wife's divorce litigation dragging into its sixth month, Willkie countered with a $1,000,000 suit against his in-laws for alienation of Mrs. Willkie's affections. Willkie's father-in-law: Millionaire Minneapolis Grain Man Peavy Heffelfinger, 64, nephew of famed 1890s Yale Guard "Pudge" Heffelfinger and onetime finance chairman of the Republican National Committee...