Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should not feel called upon to sacrifice all his most deeply imbedded cultural tastes and traits in the name of intercultural good will. After all, nobody has suggested that the Peace Corps member, in an effort to cement intercultural relations, should enter into negotiations for the sale of his sister. No one could expect him to violate in this way his deepest values and beliefs. For the same reason, nobody should suggest that he be required beyond the limits of necessity to give up the habits and tastes of a lifetime of eating, drinking, working and playing. Tact, sensitivity...
Eileen (who died a year and a half ago), she was literally a big sister who could beat up any bully in town, and the celebrated story is true that she was picked to be Marywood's Queen of the May because she was the only girl tall enough to crown an enormous statue of the Virgin...
...good for is talking," and to that moment of encouragement she Pollyan-nishly traces her bent for writing dialogue. If she had a problem, it was her height?5 ft. ii in. To her brothers Hugh and Frank (now a Connecticut bank manager and a Philadelphia lawyer) and her sister...
...years by staging, directing and writing shows "for anyone who'd give me $25?the Y.M.C.A., the American Legion, church groups, anyone." When Jean came for a Christmas visit a few years later, it was the first time he'd ever brought a girl home, and Jean, his sister remembers, "was the first person I ever saw make Walter laugh out loud...
...Country is historically Freud's play, it is dramatically Elizabeth's story. An attractive, mercurial, at once cool and responsive woman, Elizabeth lost the use of her legs after the death of her father and then her sister, walks on crutches and awaits-or, as Freud suggests, looks forward to-a wheelchair. At first she is mockingly certain that he can find no cure where a shoal of specialists have failed. Then she warms to him until-sympathizing, badgering, cajoling, but endlessly probing her mind-he probes too far; for she, meanwhile-talking, laughing, sparring, flirting, recollecting-blurts...