Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would give his fellow soldiers haircuts and scribble in his diary. On July 28, 1918, during the fighting near Chateau-Thierry, his commanding officer called for a courier to carry an urgent message. Treptow, 24, volunteered. He was killed before he could complete his mission. Says Treptow's nephew, Lyle Gehring of Roseville, Calif.: "The diary was found in his uniform pocket. It was quite bloody at the time...
Meanwhile, the Shah, recuperating in Panama (Mexico had refused to readmit him), was beyond U.S. jurisdiction. In Paris, a nephew of the Shah was assassinated on orders of Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, the revolution's hanging judge. In Iran and in the U.S., people were digging in for a long haul...
Sally's nephew Ken (Christopher Reeve), who now owns the Talley place, is perched on crutches, having lost both legs in Viet Nam. Through the marvel of commercial casting, cinema's Superman has become a homosexual cripple. Reeve gives his role the old college try-fervent amateurism. Ken's lover is Jed (Jeff Daniels), a horticulture nut. Ken's sister June (Joyce Reehling) has sedated her radicalism with bread baking, and her 13-year-old daughter (Amy Wright) is stoned on sexual voyeurism...
...longed for an end to the spoils system now look at some deadheaded, immovable GS-12 and shriek, "But we didn't mean to end up with you!" Of course not. But they did mean someone as different as possible from some political boss's dopey nephew, and up showed the GS-12. It will take more reforming to produce the perfect civil servant or the perfect Congress or the perfect lobby system. But if the urgings are strong enough, Washington will change again...
Such is the stuff of literary biography. C. David Heymann--determined neither to vindicate nor condemn the person and literary excesses of James Russell Lowell, his grand-niece, Amy Lowell, or her nephew, Robert Lowell--has coherently reconstructed in his book, American Aristocracy, a history of the influence the members of the Lowell family exerted on both American life and on each other. His three literary biographies fit neatly together. Singly, each subject provides ample material for an entire book; together, the biographies meld into a literary genaeology, examining the effect that great sums of inherited money and 13 generations...