Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freshman Chorus; Radcliffe Choral Society; PBH tutors and Roxbury Education Program; Radcliffe Shield; Comstock dormitory president; senior sister...
...took his surname from plantation owners in Virginia. Brooke's father doggedly worked his way through the Howard University School of Law, was employed for years as a Veterans Administration attorney in Washington. His mother Helen was the driving force in the upbringing of Eddie and his older sister Helene. At public gatherings, Brooke introduces his mother in almost worshipful terms. And he often recalls her apron-string homilies. On women: "Never disrespect a woman no matter how she comports herself; remember your mother is a woman." On racial prejudice: "People are people; you take them as you find them...
...stormiest days of Depression and New Deal, few men other than The Chief suffered the sustained abuse, year after year, in peace and war, that buffeted Henry Morgenthau Jr. On his appointment as Treasury Secretary at age 42, his own sister commented: "Henry knows nothing about finance." Cheap-money advocates attacked him for dispensing federal funds too parsimoniously, while fiscal conservatives bitterly condemned his calculated program of inflation. His own subordinates questioned his competence. Harry Truman later opined that it was Franklin Roosevelt, not Morgenthau, who had dictated U.S. monetary policy all along...
...Mary Martyr's spiritual sister is the teardabbing heroine of Dan Greenburg's How to Be a Jewish Mother, whose "Technique of Basic Suffering" ranges from mastering the "proper position of hands during execution of daily sigh" to staying up all night "to prepare a big breakfast" for the family...
Slightly less than one-third of the fathers graduated from an Ivy League school; a little less than one-fifth of the mothers graduated from Wellesley and another six or seven per cent attended another seven-sister school. Eighty-five per cent of the families own two or more cars, while 30 per cent own three or more. About three out of five of those who answered are Protestant. Around 15 per cent are Jewish and about the same number are non-denominational...