Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thompason, the idealistic poet, who went down in action in Yugoslavia, a political hero fighting for a noble cause; there is the humble black woman who served with Dyson on a committee to decide if DNA research was to be allowed at Princeton; and lastly there's his own son, who makes canoes in British Columbia, and whom Dyson saw save two lives in a way that contrasted sorely with the rankling memory of his own inability to do the same many years...
Actually, Klutznick has been saying yes to Presidents for decades. Son of a Kansas City, Mo., businessman, he earned his law degree at Creighton University in 1930 and practiced in Omaha until 1944, when he became commissioner of the Federal Public Housing Authority. Since then he has served in part-time posts for every President except Richard Nixon, including two years as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council during the Kennedy Administration...
Once this is accomplished, a British Governor will fly to Salisbury to hoist the Union Jack and officially return the country to colonial status. The most likely candidate for that job appears to be Lord Soames, 59, a son-in-law of Winston Churchill's and a Minister Without Portfolio in the Thatcher government. The Governor will be accompanied by a staff of British civil servants, a small number of soldiers and a British police official, Sir James Haughton, who will oversee the Rhodesian police. A British election commissioner will organize the voting. Carrington also intends to establish...
Manfred Rommel, Stuttgart mayor and son of "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel: "It's sad for the German people that they must admit it was better to lose in war than win. But we have to admit it. It would have been terrible had Hitler...
Losey adds one character not found in the original, a mysterious young valet in black who hovers wordlessly in virtually every scene of the Don's, often exchanging intimate glances with him. A nemesis? An illegitimate son? A homosexual lover? (A dubious motif also suggested by the epicene revelers at the Don's supper.) The figure, mimed with sullen sensuality by Eric Adjani (Isabelle's brother), remains cryptic and annoyingly gratuitous. He does, however, make a perfect emblem for Losey's whole approach. This Don Giovanni deserves the old line once used by Dorothy Parker...