Word: reg
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Greer reveals that the ancient motto of her family is Memor esto, or "Be mindful of your ancestors." In her case, obsessed might be a more accurate adjective. Until he died in 1983, a wasted shell of a man after serving in the Australian army during World War II, Reg Greer had rebuffed inquiries about his past. Germaine's mother seemed not to care. But after her father's death, Germaine, best known as the author of the 1970 feminist treatise The Female Eunuch, embarked on an arduous three-year investigation of the man she never did call Daddy...
...colossal hint at the truth that appears roughly a third of the way through the text. No matter. This book is far more than a standard piece of genealogical sleuthing. Half its fascination lies in chapters that describe milieus rather than biographical detail. Frontier living in Tasmania when Reg was a boy, the realities of pickup vaudeville in the outback, the grim privations of war in Malta when he served there, the ins and outs of selling jewelry or newspaper ads or working military codes -- whatever the father encountered, the daughter has made...
...When she uncovers her unknown step-grandmother, she ferrets into the woman's extraordinary life of generosity to waves of foster charges, child by child. An account of the long siege of Malta during the war is an eloquent memorial to the courage of a population. In India, where Reg Greer visited briefly, she gives a beguiling description of the pastimes of women in a comfortable family. One lady chauffeured her to Devlali to investigate local records sources, though she was innocent of auto gears and seemed to know only how the horn worked...