Word: scions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manley, scion of the father of Jamaican independence, served as prime minister from 1972 to 1980. His tenure proved a continual source of irritation to the State Department and leaders of the business community, as he tried to lead his tiny nation along independent lines that often conflicted openly with American policy and interests. He pledged his country to the principles of democratic socialism, established a controversial friendship with Fidel Castro, and raised the taxes on the foreign aluminum companies which had substantial investments in the country. With Cuba enough of a thorn in its side, Washington was wary...
...reconceived by Director Robert Allan Ackerman, however, the play is a dark comedy that chronicles the ceaseless small betrayals committed against one another by the discontented. The working-class victims suffer most from their own lack of drive, discipline and vision. The functionaries are somewhat pitiable; the scion of privilege is doltishly well meaning rather than imperiously smug. As a result, the play is more poignant and its eruptions of violence truly unsettling...
DIED. John Cowles, 84, scion of a newspaper dynasty who left his father's fiefdom in Des Moines to buy a Minneapolis afternoon paper in 1935, eventually swallowed three competitors, then reached out to create a Midwestern journalistic empire while making his Minneapolis morning flagship, the Tribune, into one of the country's most respected newspapers; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis. After he retired in 1968, the Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. began a long decline, as a result of which Cowles' son John Jr. was ousted from its leadership four weeks...
...national media have eagerly fed upon this reputation, providing Helms with the awed coverage that inflates a politician's ego and image. But the fearsome scion of the New Right has actually proved a far less effective legislator than is commonly assumed. More prudent colleagues from both sides of the aisles have so far blocked his crusade to mold the constitution to his vision of a God-fearing country. His initiative on prayer and abortion have faltered, and the sweeping anti-busing bill he pushed through the Senate has not received a friendly welcome in the House...
Lehrman didn't inspire much awe a few months ago. Perhaps second only to Koch himself, Lehrman has the physical air of chicken man Frank Perdue gone Ivy League. Scion of a wealthy family, Lehrman seemed a poor little rich boy with the improbable trademark of a pair of red suspenders--hardly a marketing package designed to sell well in most parts of the state...