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...Staff writer Sara E. Polsky can be reached at polsky@fas.harvard.edu...
...does so by returning to F.D.R.'s origins. The Roosevelts, it turns out, were a strange and sometimes bizarre family, and their history illuminates many of F.D.R.'s foibles. The future President's father James was widower of 52 when he suddenly proposed marriage to the equally lofty Sara Delano, age 26. The reason the Delanos were so privileged was that Sara's father was one of those 19th century entrepreneurs who had made a fortune smuggling Turkish opium into China...
...Sara Delano Roosevelt was in labor more than 24 hours before her 10-lb. son Franklin was born, blue and breathless. The doctor urged that she avoid further pregnancies, which she may have done by totally abstaining from sex. Her dedication to young Franklin was of an intensity bordering on the morbid. She kept him in girlish skirts and long blond curls until he was nearly six. Every hour of his day followed a strict schedule: up at 7, breakfast at 8, lessons from 9 to noon...
Especially entertaining was the performance of NEC sophomore Sara Jayne Blackmore as Geraldine Barclay. Blackmore seemed especially at home in the play’s screwy chaos as the naïve secretary, always remaining in character and drawing laughter from the audience with her animated facial contortions...
...Sara Joy Culver ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is an English concentrator in Eliot House...