Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite his self-deprecation, Leon Shapiro will join this new generation of students, including his nephew, as they take their degrees tomorrow...
Leon Shapiro even requested to receive his degree from his nephew's house "so that my 90-year-old mother doesn't have to move around too much," he says...
...alternative was a hospice in Atlanta, where the Mirins' nephew lived and where they had already purchased their grave sites. Metro Hospice brought to their nephew's home a wheelchair, hospital bed, special padding, oxygen. They provided care and pain medication during Maxine's last four days. "She was not able to talk, but she was able to hold her hand out to me. She knew I was there and that I loved her and valued her life." Mirin was charged "not even 10 cents" for the service; it was all covered by Medicare...
...novel's title is a clever allusion to Diderot's Rameau's Nephew. Its structure, while not entirely original, is ambitious. Reminiscent of Antonia Byatt's Possession, it uses the same conceit of imposing a fictional historical text upon the lives of contemporary characters and concocting a story to fill in the interstices...
...Teddy shouts "Charge!" and dashes off to consult his cabinet on the latest pressing issue of national security, Dr. Harper asks the beaming Abby and Martha if they have ever tried to convince their nephew that he wasn't actually Teddy Roosevelt. The aunts explain that they'd rather he be Roosevelt than nobody, and the audience laughs with this sudden introduction to the kooky Brewster family...