Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sister, help to trim the sails...
...horror of Electra is not mythic but domestic. In the rasping quarrels of Electra with her mother and sister, modern playgoers will find hints of those vicious family fights that occupy whole scenes of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. The difference is that Sophocles' dialogue reveals destiny as well as dissension; the troubles of the House of Atreus belong to the universal family of man. Before the muted grey stylized panels, columns and stairs of the palace facade, the drama of man's willful pride goes on unmuted. But the play's hypnotic...
When Schuman was 19, his older sister coaxed him off the sand lots long enough to sit through a concert by the New York Philharmonic. It was love at first sound...
...dusty mountain road to the Yugoslavian village of Karlovac chugged the little blue Simca. Its driver, Cleveland Press Columnist Theodore Andrica, was on an extraordinary assignment for his paper: to find Mrs. Jela Grozdanovich, sister of Press Subscriber John Golubic, a retired railroad baggageman. Andrica's mission was only partly successful. He arrived at Pavla Miskina Ulica i only to find that Golubic's 75-year-old sister had gone to the country to help some relatives harvest hay. But her daughter, Mrs. Antonia Ivkovich, was home; she and Andrica had a long and sentimental talk -in Croatian...
Sonny, as he was then called, a solemn, polite child who liked to take long walks by himself, had no brothers and only one sister, Doris, who was eight years older than he. Salinger once said that Seymour and Holden were modeled after a dead school friend, so reporters and Ph.D. candidates are forever searching for him. At least two of the author's prep school acquaintances died young, one of them a boy of great brilliance. But intensive detective work shows that Salinger, like a lonely child inventing brothers and sisters, has drawn most of his characters...