Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little girl gasps and runs back to tell her sister (Diane Holgate): "He's in our barn! He's come back!" Wonder fills the sister's eyes. "Asleep in the hay," she murmurs dreamily. Next morning, while the sound track tinkles a nursery-level arrangement of We Three Kings, the girls take "Him" some food-bread and wine, of course. And when their little brother (Alan Barnes) pops in, they swear him to secrecy: "Don't tell the grownups...
...running against House Speaker John McCormack's nephew Ed, the President quipped: "We're not sending in any troops, just a few training missions. We're confining ourselves to the slogan, 'We'd rather be Ted than Ed.' " Referring to his sister-in-law, he said it was not true that "we're going to change the name of Lafayette Square to Radziwill Square-at least, not during my first term." About Jackie's trip he observed: "I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant...
...death!" slogans appeared on streetcar islands and walls. Framini, although an anti-Communist and a practicing Roman Catholic, began campaigning against Frondizi for selling out to "Yankee imperialism." Che Guevara's Red mother Celia showed up at Per&243;nista rallies, asking that"the voice of Cuba, sister of Per&243;nism, be heard." The Per&243;nistas had no need to ask what little support Argentina's tiny (estimated membership: 100,000) Communist Party could offer. In the end, it was given just the same...
...ranging from oils to tiles, that were also mostly by Matisse. Though now owned by many collectors, these treasures were once a part of one of the earliest and most significant collections of 20th century art. They belonged to San Francisco's Michael and Sarah Stein (brother and sister-in-law of Gertrude and Leo), the well-to-do and cultivated Americans-in-Paris who, beginning in 1905, became the invaluable patrons of the daring young Matisse...
Seventy-one years ago, a poet was dying of gangrene in a Marseille hospital: one of his legs was amputated, the other might have to go. "Have yourself chopped up, torn to bits, shredded," he wrote to his sister, "but don't let them amputate you ... To have to perform acrobatic stunts all day long for the mere semblance of existing!" Soon after, Arthur Rimbaud was dead; he had just turned...