#shriver's

[twixnmix]

Andy Warhol and Grace Jones attending Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger's wedding in Hyannis on  April 26, 1986. 

[kennedycore]

Little known fact: JFK lived with his sister Eunice for 3 years during his time as a congressman in the late 1940s.

Here they are photographed together in the house itself, located on 34th Street NW, Washington D.C.

Jack would later end up moving out in 1951.

[dreamofstarlight]

The Kennedy Family in Palm Beach, Florida - December 1937

[impairedempathy]

bloodhail - have a nice life

[joansiesbeloved]

Joan Bennett Kennedy with husband Ted, Eunice, Pat, Jean, and her children. Circa 1960s-70s.

[modern-heresy]

[tinytimism]

next person who even jokingly says that rosemary’s lobotomy is what triggered the kennedy curse is getting their entire bloodline cursed

[eretzyisrael]

by Lionel Shriver

Although some say we’ve passed peak woke, the modern left’s authoritarian impulse to push other people around is alive and well. It’s just that a memo must have gone out to the faithful that the agenda has switched, and now instead of black lives mattering or the climate changing, they’re all to lose their wits over Israel and stick it to the Jews. These are very obedient disciples.

Last week, some 400 writers, including Sally Rooney and Arundhati Roy, signed a letter calling for a mass boycott of the Israeli publishing industry, excepting those who have denounced the “genocide” in Gaza. Now, Rooney, Roy, and their colleagues are certainly well within their rights to get exercised about the gravel pit that used to be Gaza. Because these are writers, you’d think their best route to making their feelings known would be, um, to write. After all, the impulse to form a mob is surely antithetical to the impulse to record your thoughts in text in private and to have your unique voice broadly heard. Me, I’ve never been a joiner, and I used to think my literary brethren weren’t joiners either, much less bullies. But even for writers, this is an age of aggressive groupsterism.

In addition to boycotting Israeli book festivals, literary agents, and publishers, Rooney et al. also refuse to allow their own work to be translated into Hebrew and published in Israel. Ironically, like most Western literary subcultures these days, Israel’s is predominantly left wing, so the Rooney brigade is seeking to punish its natural political allies.

But the intention is not only aimed at punishing Israel’s tiny cultural institutions. The boycott seeks to go well beyond the signatories and intimidate all authors into withdrawing their work for consideration at Israeli publishing houses and refusing to participate in Israeli festivals. That includes writers who disagree with the organizers and do not believe that the IDF’s effort to root out Hamas qualifies as genocide as well as a range of Jewish writers in and outside of Israel whose views on this war may be tortured or finely nuanced. Because we must all speak as one. As ever, a single perspective is permissible. Writers used to enjoy conflict, complexity, contradiction—duking it out on paper or raucously talking over each other on a festival panel. Now we chant in a unified chorus.

I’m not so vain as to imagine that my refusal to have my novels translated into Hebrew would be crushing for the Israeli publishing industry or cripplingly disappointing for the country’s reading public. I’m delighted to learn whenever I’ve secured a translation deal, so in case any Israeli editors are reading this, allow me to go on the record: The Hebrew translation rights to my last novel are still available. And in case you might be reading this, Sally, whether I sell Hebrew translation rights is none of your business. Besides, to the degree that my fiction is the best expression of my own larger political outlook, disseminating my novels as far and widely as possible constitutes the optimal method of promoting that outlook. Publishing in translation sure beats prissily refusing to allow my precious sentences to be corrupted by the language of Jews.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

[voguefashion]

Lee Radziwill (wearing Armani), Richard Meier, Maria Shriver, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Sargent Shriver, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg (wearing Carolina Herrera), Jean Kennedy Smith, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Ted Kennedy and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala Exhibition of “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on April 23, 2001.

[brandysamantha]

[godlessondheimite]

me reading the long passages about kevin katchadourian tormenting and gaslighting his mother and sister: this is normal. i think about this type of nightmare life frequently.

me reading a passage where lionel shriver’s self-insert praises the big bang theory: oh this is dark. she is irredeemably fucked up in the head.

[kennedycore]

A clip of Eunice, Rosemary, and Jack talking to the press on a ship sailing to London to meet their father, Ambassador Joe Kennedy, 1938.

JFK says to Rosemary “Bye, Rosie!” and she replies with “Bye, Jack!”

Some of the only recorded footage we have of Rosemary!

Credit: kinolibrary.com

[dreamofstarlight]

JFK and Jackie with brother-in-law Sargent Shriver at the Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation International Awards Dinner on December 6, 1962

[impairedempathy]

kevin khatchadourian