Word: oona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned out. Almost perversely, O'Neill forced his life to come out as tragically as his scripts by specializing in family disasters. O'Neill families resembled his literary influences: plots by Ibsen, wives by Strindberg. In his 40th year he left Agnes Boulton (mother of Shane and Oona O'Neill), a short-story writer who once fell asleep while he was reading a script to her. His third and last wife never made that mistake. Born Hazel Tharsing, Carlotta Monterey met her fourth husband when she played in The Hairy Ape. Once her eyes, "like wet grapes...
...Neill, Carlotta said, could feel "real love" only for his plays. Only Oona survived O'Neill's catastrophic fatherliness, which seemed to consist of a month of misleading warmth and charm followed by years of neglect, or hostility. After a brilliant start as a Greek scholar at Yale, Eugene Jr. killed himself. Shane turned to heroin, Oona turned to Charlie Chaplin, and both were eventually disinherited. But the family, the scene of O'Neill's greatest failure as a man, was the occasion for his greatest success as a writer. O'Neill is uneven...
...Oona E. Sullivan, an official of the Ford Foundation, said yesterday that Harvard "received the grant because it has one of the best established schools for government policy analysis in the country." "They have an excellent faculty and their projects sound promising," she said...
Charlie need not have worried. At Philharmonic Hall, the 1,500 who had paid $10 and $25 admission, plus the 1,200 who had paid $100 and $250 apiece for a black-tie champagne reception after the films, cheered him to the echo when he appeared with Oona in the first tier, and they watched the Little Tramp on-screen with such delighted empathy that the big concert hall all but glowed in the dark. When the movies were over, the audience turned in sudden, shouting ovation toward the dignified old man looking down on them, whose spry shadow...
...following day, a confident, happy Charlie began stepping out in the city. With Oona, he went for a short walk in a secluded part of Central Park. When he turned up at the "21" Club for a lunch given by Manhattan Councilman Carter Burden, there was a burst of applause as he entered the dining room. He lingered at the table, telling stories well into the afternoon, then had Photographer Richard Avedon up to his Plaza Hotel suite for their second sitting (the first was 20 years ago, on the day Chaplin left America). Later he visited Gracie Mansion, where...