His mother, Nina Gore Vidal, divorced his father in 1935, then married the financier Hugh D Auchincloss, who in turn divorced her and married Jacqueline Kennedy's mother, thus establishing a connection between Vidal and the Kennedy clan that persisted through the presidency of John F Kennedy. Vidal's unflattering view of the Bouvier sisters was registered in Two Sisters (1970).
First, the institutionalization of North American radicalism in the middle-class bastion of academia creates incentives for intellectuals to minimize the political importance of their own class privilege, and focus instead on other identities (in turn divorced from their economic inflections).
This, in turn, divorces the government and the wider Australian society of any responsibility in actually addressing any of those root causes.
But these days both sexes have access to the workplace, and the protection that women like Katrin Radmacher require isn't from helpless penury, but from rapacity – the greed of ex-husbands who violate what should be legally binding contracts to turn divorce into a nice little earner.
And in the process, with her description of the split as a "conscious uncoupling", turning divorce into a lifestyle trend.
When Conan O'Brien debuted his new cable talk show, "Conan," on TBS last week, less than a year after his very public demotion-turned-divorce from NBC, he fired shots at his former employer — and at himself.
By The New Yorker November 10, 2010 When Conan O'Brien debuted his new cable talk show, "Conan," on TBS last week, less than a year after his very public demotion-turned-divorce from NBC, he fired shots at his former employer — and at himself.
Minnie nabbed herself Vincent Astor, but made a wrong turn when she divorced him for the homosexual painter James Fosburgh.
And they "propose, get married, impregnate each other, turn 40, get divorced, snort heroin, murder and die in hotel rooms," he adds.
She longed to be with her family but lacked the courage to turn up alone, divorced and with nothing to show for her parents' efforts.
Medieval Jewish neoplatonism is an ill-defined term, and all attempts to explicate Ibn Ezra's "neoplatonism" are problematic, forcing scholars to note numerous points of agreement between Ibn Ezra and the Aristotelians which, in turn, cannot be divorced from the neoplatonic interpretations informing Islamic Aristotelianism in general.
