Word: widowing
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...Thomas Corcoran, when he was not redesigning the Government 40 years ago, used to play the accordion for Franklin Roosevelt out at Joe Kennedy's place. Robert McNamara, John Kennedy's and Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense, attended, and so did Mrs. Dean Acheson, the widow of Harry Truman's Secretary of State...
...WIDOW...
...Widow is neither a gracefully composed elegy nor a profound essay on grief. It threatens more than once to be a nonbook. But its very ordinariness gives Mrs. Caine's account its value. She has the naiveté and courage to pose the specific questions. How (and how not) to tell the children? "Get them to ask questions," she advises, and don't try to be "clinical" or "dispassionate." Instead, show your own grief, encourage them to cry. How (and how not) to write letters of condolence? "Praise is wonderfully welcome," she emphasizes, and so is "a little...
...Gardée represents a total contrast in mood. In the Royal's English version, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, it is like an animated John Constable landscape. The story tells of the romance between young Farmer Colas (Nureyev) and Lise (Merle Park), daughter of the ambitious widow Simone. With English country dancing and an intricate cavort around a Maypole, it is by no means all Nureyev's show. The familiar danseur noble, burning with erotic fervor, vanished. In his place was an impish rustic, playing cat's cradle, exploding from a stack of wheat bundles...
...typical. All his readers are familiar by now with the story of how he got his start as a novelist when doctors declared that he had only a year to live and he began writing like a man possessed, determined to build up an estate for his future widow...