Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understandably taken an increasingly tolerant view of divorce. Adlai Stevenson was divorced, but he twice won the Democratic nomination for President-and there is little evidence that his broken marriage was a decisive factor in his defeat. Jackie Kennedy's parents were divorced and her mother remarried; her sister and brother-in-law were both divorcees when they married, and, in the eyes of the Catholic Church, are in fact not married...
About to set out on a tour of the U.S., Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, 67, and her son, Prince Jean, 42, arrived on the White House lawn by Marine helicopter. Sister-in-Law Eunice Shriver stood in for Jackie Kennedy as hostess in the outdoor greeting ceremony. The First Lady, advised by her doctor to stay inside when she can, peered out from an upstairs window with Caroline...
...Freud the Father, Jung the Son-but he was obsessed with the idea that there was murder in Jung's heart. Once, when Jung told Freud of a dream in which he had seen two skulls, Freud nervously demanded to know whose they were. "My wife and my sister-in-law," Jung recalls lying. "After all, I had to name someone whose death was worth the wishing...
...James grew up was unusual: besides James himself it contained three other exceptionally gifted individuals. Henry James, the father, was a frequent writer on religious topics, a friend of Emerson and Carlyle, and a conversationalist of primary magnitude. Brother Henry turned to England and the novel. And William's sister Alice, whom some felt to be the brightest member of the family, suffered throughout her life from a particularly severe variation of the frailty cum neurasthenia that afflicted her brothers...
Into this edgy household comes the perfect scapegoat: an unruly seven-year-old boy from the South named Robert Kean. The son of Dora's sister, Robert has been foisted on the Harmsworths while his mother recovers from her latest illness...