Word: elders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Facing Mount Kenya, describing the life and customs of the Kikuyu in a golden, pre-European past. The book contained a photograph of a bearded Kenyatta carrying a spear and wearing a blue monkey cloak slung over his shoulder?all fabricated to make him look more like a tribal elder than a Western student. He was, as British Author Elspeth Huxley once observed, "a showman to his fingertips...
When we were most apart, we sat together on his purple rug listening to the bleat of lams and ewes, listening for our children. He listened for Esau. His beloved Esau. The elder son. As though first were sum of all the parts. As though life were nothing more than a transparent fluid for passing on the seed of Abraham. And he was jealous for that, content to be the shadow of an eagle as I never...
...ambitious Socialist leader Bettino Craxi. While negotiations to break the impasse continued behind closed doors, the electors went through 15 inconclusive ballots, with the proceedings broadcast on national television. Although Pertini was their compromise candidate, the Communists on early ballots cast symbolic votes for a favorite son, Party Elder Giorgio Amendola; by the end of the election he had received a total of 5,028 votes. Throwaway votes went to such unlikely candidates as the widow of Aldo Moro, the onetime Premier murdered by his Red Brigades kidnapers, and even Sophia Loren...
...story began to unravel when Elder Daughter Remi leaked her father's deposition to the press. Reporters learned from it that Brooke had listed a $49,000 loan from a friend, Massachusetts Liquor Distributor A. Raymond Tye. But Brooke had not reported the loan in his financial report to the U.S. Senate. Actually, no such loan existed; Brooke admitted that it was a "misstatement." He had borrowed only $2,000 from Tye. The rest came from his mother-in-law's insurance settlement. In an attempt to end the controversy, he handed Perera a check two weeks...
...Working is nothing new in my life. I just never got paid before," says Charlotte Ford. But two years ago, Henry Ford II's elder daughter set up her own Seventh Avenue business and at about the same time started doing a little writing. The result: Charlotte Ford's Book of Modern Manners, scheduled for publication next spring. "It's completely different from Emily Post and Amy Vanderbilt, says Ford, 37. The book gives tips for roommates of the opposite sex ("They should split the rent and put both their names on the mailbox"), and advice...