Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working women now have professional or university degrees, it was the women's vote that gave Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei, 53, his landslide victory over the far left in November's crucial election. Much of Frei's popularity stemmed from the infectious zeal of his late sister Irene, who died in an auto accident five weeks before the election. An ardent campaigner and organizer for the Christian Democrats, Irene won an alderman's seat in Santiago in 1963, picking up the biggest majority of any candidate...
Price of Freedom. In general, the Kennedys found all the privacy they could wish. Nobody paid any attention at all to Bobby, or to his sister, Mrs. Stephen Smith, who flew into Aspen with her husband a day later. Jackie negotiated a deal with the frustrated press photographers by agreeing to a ten-minute session provided she would then be free. Gawkers were at a minimum, and the Secret Service men found little to do. When Jackie and the kids were on the practice slope, two of them stood guard, calling out "No pictures" to anything in a parka that...
...Downs. Like the adults they really are, the children of Peanuts are beset by an assortment of griefs and fears. Charlie Brown's little sister Sally is afraid of kindergarten. Linus, refusing to memorize his piece for the Christmas pageant, knuckles under when faced with the imminent threat of his sister's cocked fist. The ungovernable loudmouth Lucy gets depressed by the thought that the world has downs as well as ups. "I don't want any downs,' " she bellows. "I just want 'ups' and 'ups' and 'ups.' " Even Snoopy...
Sebastian's story begins as the summer idyl of a well-to-do youth on his family's Danubian estate. His sleep of innocence is torn awake by the discovery of corruption all around him, including incest between his sister and oldest brother. Sebastian flees from home and enlists in the army to find "purity and heroism" in combat; he becomes a daredevil tank commander on the East ern Front as Rumania joins the Axis in the war against Russia. Again reality catches up with the dream, as he witnesses such atrocities as the poisoning of village wells...
...zest with which a generation of "open church" priests and laymen are calling for more reforms of outdated rules (clerical celibacy, for example), institutions (the Index of Forbidden Books) and teachings (birth control). The renewal at the Vatican has also had a striking impact on the sister churches: it challenges the Reformation faiths to re-examine how reforming they still are. "The ecumenical breakthrough in Catholicism has changed the climate of the times," says Dean Samuel Miller of Harvard's Divinity School...