Word: nora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes off to win a Medal of Honor in the Korean War, is going to be President. Sean is bound for the priesthood, and will of course be a Cardinal. Paul's wife is to be Nora, orphaned daughter of a family friend and a foster child in the Cronin home. Sean loves her; Paul gets her, hence the temptation of Thy Brother's Wife...
Everything moves fast for the Cronins-even tragedy. Paul goes to Washington on Bobby Kennedy's team; Nora plays football with Bobby, pushes him into his pool, sees him assassinated in Los Angeles. Paul, singlehanded, is made to exaggerate all the faults imputed to the Kennedy men. His war heroics are accidental as he flees from the enemy; he helps steal a test in law school; he becomes a compulsive bed hopper, driving one girlfriend to suicide and leaving her daughter, a campaign aide, to die in a hotel fire. Paul is a Senator running for President when fate...
...Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD) is planning an "emergency press conference" for the day after the first prosecution, no matter when or where the suit taken place. The conference, BAARD member Nora H. Leyland said, will take place at the Arlington St. Church, and will feature Dr. Benjamin Spock. Spock was one of four people arrested at that site in the late 1960s for draft resistance activities...
...Nora S. Jens Lancaster...
...Nora Seton captures effectively the predicament of the confused Penelope, who is caught between her roles of loyal wife and liberated woman With her ringing voice and facial expressions, she grows less awkward as the performance continues. The themes of women's rights, anti-war sentiment and the importance of the modern hero dominate the play--but no one theme is allowed to emerge...