Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attitude of the U.S. seems to be that of a rich young man who says to a girl, "I'll marry you and provide for you in every way, but you'll have to stop worrying or caring about your sister, who got raped by that no-good friend of mine...
Just One Look. The President had been informed of the birth while still airborne. But he, along with his sister, Jean Smith, who heard of the birth over her car radio, were waiting in Jackie's room when she came back from surgery. Peering into an incubator (an ultramodern type known as an Isolette) in the private nursery, the President saw his tiny, brown-haired son for the first time at 2:30 p.m. Three hours later, he wheeled the incubator up to Jackie's bed, and she saw little Pat for the first-and only-time...
...sense of outrage does remain. Profumo, for example, would not dare to enter one of the St. James clubs, or to appear at the Goodwood races (he fled to Scotland and his sister's place during the recent bank holiday). Lord Astor continues to entertain, but, says one Establishmentarian, "people resent him for mixing his family and his circle with his peccadilloes...
...hunger strikes all over the country. While the furor over his death rages, Buddhist leaders have ruled out further suicides until they can again reap the full propaganda advantage. Waiting in the wings, however, are three more suicide volunteers, including an aged Buddhist nun. Not intimidated, Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, continued to preach the hard line against the Buddhists. "If they burn 30 women, we will go ahead and clap our hands," said Mme. Nhu. "We cannot be responsible for their madness...
Thus one is unavoidably engaged by the specifically "Negro" aspects of the story: Jim's sister's speeches about "fighting for our race;" Jim's inner torment over being the only Negro in his law school class; Ella's shame at having married a Negro. O'Neill's basic theme, the passionately destructive relationship between Ella and Jim, cannot help but be obscured by the incidental racial questions...