Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happen in the bedroom, Mary was not a large part of Barrie's life. His chief attachments were reserved for male youths. Finally, in the late '90s, he met and, in effect, married his true love: the Davies family. Arthur Davies was a successful barrister, his wife Sylvia a woman of memorable vivacity. They had five sons, each as perfect in his way as David had been so long ago. Slowly, almost insidiously, the playwright enveloped them with his charm and money. All but one of the boys adored Barrie and his tales. He, in turn, created...
Barrie was now half a father, and fate soon gave him full title. Arthur died of cancer in 1907 and Sylvia followed him three years later, leaving the play wright as her boys' principal guardian. His care and kindness could not be faulted, but no indulgence could save the doomed family. George, the eldest, was killed in the trenches of World War I; Michael, the most brilliant, drowned at Oxford, possibly as the result of a suicide pact with another student; Peter jumped in front of a London subway train in 1960. As Birkin unfolds the darkening drama...
...Sylvia Porter's New Money Book for the 80's. This syndicated columnist's 5-lb. doorstopper sells for a hefty $24.95, and anyone with the stamina to lug it home probably will not need any other money guide. Written for a reader who seems to know absolutely nothing about personal finance, Porter's 1,305 pages-completely updated and revised since the publication of her bestselling Money Book in 1975 -cover budgeting, energy saving, career planning, investing, dressing well for less and even dying thriftily. (She recommends preplanning the funeral and discussing costs in advance...
...could exhaust superlatives on individual numbers. When Sylvia ("Kuum-ba") Williams, a lady of formidable amplitude, undulates into Kitchen Man and The Right Key but the Wrong Keyhole, sex becomes an active verb. Thais Clark is an infectious comedian who can subtly saturate a blues like Muddy Water with haunting plaintiveness. By birth, Topsy Chapman was a 16th child. Here she's a No. 1 joymaker. Snake-hipped Vernel Bagneris keeps the company jumping at a blistering pace...
...Sylvia D. Feldman, URI affirmative action officer, said the more than 100 students at the Memorial Union forum in Kingston, R.I. also described personal incidents of harassment, despite the "inhibiting" presence of univited television reporters...