Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Absence of O'Hara. There was a great deal that wanted altering in lona Station, Ont., the dour, Scot-dominated farming community in which Galbraith grew up. "It was a dreadfully barren existence up there," says his younger sister, Mrs. Catherine Denholm, now a resident of the pleasant town of Elora, Ont. "It was totally arid." William Galbraith, a schoolteacher turned farmer, was a 6-ft. 8-in. giant like his son, but unlike him in other respects. Shy and modest, he nonetheless became a leading light in the local branch of the Liberal Party...
...pedagogical style. For all his fame, Galbraith is regularly panned by the Harvard Crimson's Confidential Guide to undergraduate courses. "Vague platitudes on assorted cosmic questions," complains one of his students, "are apparently received through the office of divine revelation." Is he arrogant? "Oh, yes, of course," says his sister Catherine. "But his arrogance is always with tongue in cheek. It's part of his charm. He is also a kindly man, which isn't often mentioned...
...little angels" all telling Him how great, good, handsome, and wise He is. In response to his final wish, the cook is transformed into a nun and lands in the convent of the Leaping Virilians, where initiation consists of bouncing around on a trampoline to the beat of Big Sister, the head of the convent. ("Big Sister Is Watching You" signs appear on the walls...
...features into a sort of female Playboy. Since the winsome Mrs. Brown took over three years ago, circulation has increased 16%, to more than 900,000, ad revenues have more than doubled, to $3,600,000. Mrs. Brown likes to think of her magazine as a "sophisticated older sister." It is edited, she says, "for the girl who doesn't have everything going for her, who has to inch along...
...with an eye on the bestseller list. Byron, after all, was almost too much. He was a good if not great poet; he was handsome; he could swim the Hellespont, even with a game leg; he had affairs with men as well as women including, some believe, his half sister. He was also a political rebel. When he died at 34 in Missolonghi, Greece, he was planning and financing a revolt against the Turkish oppressors...