Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important political and social connections. his father. Peter Jefferson, who was known for his great physical strength, made his own way as a planter. When he died two decades ago, he left about 7,500 acres and more than 60 slaves, to be equally divided between Thomas and his younger brother Randolph, and generous dowries for his six daughters. Jefferson's mother, Jane, who died only last March, was a Randolph, and thus a member of one of the colony's first families...
...stir in Newport even in his teens, has also departed for London. He is only 20 and his future cannot be predicted, but his talent is evident in his youthful portrait of Mrs. John Bannister and her son. Another unpredictable talent is that of John Trumbull, a year younger than Stuart and born to wealth (as Stuart was not). Trumbull's father. Governor of Connecticut, recognized his son's precocity and enrolled him as a third-year student at Harvard at 15, then observed: "I am sensible of his natural genius and inclination for limning...
...expensive--ticket prices are only slightly lower than downtown--but the quality of its productions is reputedly high. George Hamlin, producing director of the Loeb, recruits the company from all across the country, inviting noted New York and Boston area actors and other younger performers chosen through a series of national auditions to participate...
...very best must work very hard--"to the bone, to the point of almost suicide." The Chamber Players live and breathe music about 10 to 12 hours a day, split between rehearsal and practice time. In general, one "elder" plays in each ensemble to provide musical guidance for the younger musicians, but Kirchner stresses that young and old interact with "real equality" throughout the intensive program. "We criticize each other," he says. "It's part of growing up in music...
...course she does-a younger intellectual even more half-baked than her husband. Or maybe it is just that freedom from her husband's endless absorption with himself is its own reward. In any event, he finds her infidelity less easy to take than he had imagined. He responds with a sort of obsessive nagging that fails to mask a mounting rage. It could not be better calculated to drive her still farther from him. The result, finally, is separation, new marriages and, in a sudden burst of startling savagery, a beating of his former mate that...