Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of 18 Soviet families who may receive permission to emigrate to the United States or Israel, released by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) this week, includes the names of Levich and his wife Tanya as well as lesser-known Soviet "refuseniks...
Giulini plans one major innovation for Los Angeles: additional chamber music. Modern music will be left to guest conductors. Says he: "I don't feel at ease with music I don't understand." Giulini and his wife Marcella will live in Beverly Hills; there will be none of Mehta's social panache. Says Giulini: "I have lived like a bear for years, isolated with my music...
...woman is the bored and elegant wife of a witty, philandering Italian diplomat stationed in Greece in 1936, when, as people used to say, the war clouds were gathering. What she sees from her window is a Communist on the run from a police roundup ordered by a new fascist dictatorship. What happens after he climbs through the window is that love conquers the class barriers and she devises an elaborate stratagem to help him escape the country. Later, we are given to understand, she joins him and they both become martyrs to his cause after World War II begins...
...fade away," MacArthur emotionally told a joint session of Congress when he returned. He did gradually fade away, although he served for a time as chairman of Remington Rand (later Sperry Rand) and occupied a plush apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, which he shared with his second wife, Jean, and his son, Arthur. He was not ordinarily given to candor about himself, but a few years before he died in 1964, he gave some indication of what it had been like to be Douglas MacArthur. "My mother put too much pressure on me," he said. "Being...
Then came "that fierce season of bewilderment," and suddenly there were only two breathings in the cabin. The boy's world was filled entirely with a ghost and a father who would for a long time remain "in the dusk of his grief over the loss of a wife when she was only 31. The father was short, wiry, horse-stomped, work-scarred, a ranch hand, a sheep tender, a survivor of scratch-hard mountain life who cherished the few years he and his bride had followed their flocks among the timeless hills. He faced life with...