Word: abigail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adams had a well-developed, if dry, sense of humor as his rendition of this incident with Franklin indicates. And The Book of Abigail and John, a Bicentennial offering from the Harvard University Press, offers more of this side of history. It is a vital living collection of the correspondence between John Adams and his wife Abigail Smith Adams from the days of their early Weymouth courtship until their reunification in post-war Britain in 1784. It is a story of real people and their concerns, fears and accomplishments in a world turned upside down...
...JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS were separated for long periods during the 22-year period the book spans. During their courtship and the early years of their marriage, Adams was often away practicing law in different towns. Then, the First and Second Continental Congresses drew the Braintree lawyer to Pennsylvania until 1777 when an appointment to diplomatic duties in France and Holland splintered his family for years. Out of these years apart come the letters...
Just because this particular play is destined for the dustbin does not mean that a varied season containing such up coming plays as Bingo, by England's Edward Bond, about Shakespeare's final years back in Stratford; Abigail Adams, Second First Lady, by Edith Owen; and The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia, by Preston Jones, about a lunatic-fringe group from Texas, may not provide some aesthetic rewards. To take a risk is the regional theater's brand of courage...
Your husband may be a homosexual, Redbook tells its 4.5 million women readers, but your marriage can survive if you make an effort. In her "Dear Abby" column, Abigail Van Buren reassures the distraught parents of a lesbian: "Why do you assume that her sexual preference will necessarily 'ruin' her life?" There are gay* studies classes in 50 colleges, gay dances in churches, gay synagogues, gay Alcoholics Anonymous groups, a lesbian credit union, even a gay Nazi Party and a Jewish lesbian group formed to fight it. There are now more than 800 gay groups in the U.S., most...
...passive, dependent partner. With the rise of feminist consciousness, the butch-femme pairing seems to be fading, though the terms are still in use. Butch women are sometimes called brothers; effeminate male homosexuals call each other sister. An auntie is a derogatory term for an older male homosexual. Abigail is a nickname for a stuffy middle-aged gay. A front marriage is a legal marriage of convenience. Fag and faggot are acceptable terms among gays if no straights are present...