Word: sister-in-law
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...news was bitterly received by Pasternak's family. Yevgeni Pasternak, a member of the research staff of the Institute of Literature, and his sister-in-law Natalya Pasternak, the widow of the author's other son Leonid, do not live in the house, but they have diligently kept it in repair and conducted tours for visitors. Everything has been preserved just as it was when Pasternak was living. Among the keepsakes: the piano where the noted Russian pianist Svyatoslav Richter played all through the night Pasternak died, and the worn kitchen table where Pasternak lifted toasts of vodka...
...next few days, Kennedy will sail the waters off the Cape in the Victura and the Curragh. He will walk the uncrowded beach with his mother Rose and play tennis with his sister-in-law Ethel. He will savor the world acclaim from papers and television about his convention speech, and he will probably eat more ice cream than he should and have an extra daiquiri or two. He will luxuriate in his patrician world far from the American deprived whom he has championed, a long distance from the middle class whose stresses he says he perceives. Ted Kennedy...
Calvin's dictates have personal consequences: his sister-in-law is banished for adultery, his stepdaughter jailed for fornication. "I have found it to be true," observes a friend, "that men who know what is best for society are unable to cope with their families." Some of Calvin's decisions have darker and more far-reaching echoes. Prefiguring Salem, he allows some 30 "witches" to be burned, drowned or hanged as scapegoats during an epidemic. And he becomes, like so many rebels, fiercely doctrinaire, letting the refugee heretic Michael Servetus go to the stake...
...father's unmarried sister adores the mother's unmarried brother. That subplot should underline the tightness of this family circle, but in this production, it comes across as merely silly. Sarah Sewall, as the spinster aunt, falls into the obvious danger of mawkishness. She lavishes devotion on her brother's children and her sister-in-law's brother too ostentatiously. And, like Evans, Sewall does not move like a middle-aged woman. Her counterpart is much better. Genuinely funny as the incorrigible uncle, the drunken wastrel, one wishes Jonathan David Lemkin appeared more often...
...home, Kennedy will still be up against his most enduring political problem: voters' doubts about his character. Because of them, he switched his broadcast spots in the last days of the New Hampshire campaign from criticism of Carter to character defenses by his mother Rose and sister-in-law Ethel. Rose Kennedy said her son was devoted to his family and had been "a tower of strength on the tragic occasions of the deaths of my three older sons." Ethel Kennedy described how he has served as surrogate father to her eleven children. Nonetheless, surveys showed that many voters...