Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beatrice (Carolyn Duffy), a divorcee and widow, considers her life a failure. Her marriage was a disaster, her career is nonexistent (she earns a measly $50 a week caring for unbearable invalids), her hopes for the future are dim, and her children, well, one is recovering from a mental breakdown and the other is busy experimenting with radioactive seeds...
This year's James Wright Poetry Festival (the seventh to date) attracts nearly a hundred participants for a night and a day of commemorative talk. The opening session, at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, finds Wright's widow quietly reading from his letters and Wright Biographer Peter Stitt delivering several of the landmark poems in a clipped, dry, ironic voice, praising the poet's deft humor and his bottomless affection for "the unnamed poor...
...perfect ending for Woodward's dramatic spy saga. Too perfect, in the view of some. Casey's widow Sophia flatly denied that Woodward had seen her late husband in the hospital. Ronald Reagan branded Woodward's account an "awful lot of fiction." Others questioned whether, even if true, Casey's dying nod and the tantalizingly ambiguous "I believed" were enough to close the books on the CIA director's involvement in the Iran-contra affair. Though Lieut. Colonel Oliver North testified in July that Casey had embraced the diversion as the "ultimate covert operation" and many suspect...
While running for President about a century ago, Grover Cleveland bumped into what might have been a fatal problem -- the public charge that he had fathered an illegitimate son by a tall, pretty widow, Maria Halpin, manager of the cloak department in a Buffalo store. To modern Americans accustomed to politics as show biz, it may be surprising to learn that Cleveland survived the scandal by acknowledging paternity and giving his organization a simple order: "Tell the truth...
...tradition would have been required to care for her the rest of her life, had pressured her into the act. Kanwar's father, saying he believed that she acted under "divine orders," took consolation from the fact that his daughter had become a devi (goddess). A shrine commemorating the widow will be built at the suttee site. More than $160,000 has already been contributed by devotees...