Word: alma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lauretta Galligan found herself alone most of the time when her husband's company assigned him a job that kept him away from home six days a week. To make friends and keep busy, Lauretta joined the women's auxiliaries of her husband's two alma maters and attended night school. As her household expanded to include five sons, she dropped her outside interests to spend more time at home, "making sure everyone is going in the right direction...
Social Causes. After the machine's success had made millionaires of himself and at least 300 other investors, Wilson, a gentle man whom everybody called "Joe," increasingly devoted himself to many educational and social causes. He was chairman of his alma mater's board of trustees, steered it into making a $196,000 investment in Xerox stock that is now worth $120 million, and left the university some $20 million, plus millions more in trust. Wilson encouraged others at Xerox to become involved in civic affairs. "Those in the inner city have derived little benefit from technology...
Those credentials have hemidemisemi-quavers of Alma Mahler, who also combined personal beauty and an intellectual signal that achievers found irresistible. But Gilliatt's life has no such grand Viennese design. The first major film critic since James Agee to enjoy distinction as a scenarist, she has become something of a recluse, both in her life and work. The prominent are never the subjects of her fiction, so far almost twoscore polished short stories and two novels, largely about the odd, unfashionable characters whom Anthony Burgess reviewed as "defiantly interesting...
...burden for Bergman is doubled by his need to communicate the meaning of Alma's pain. Upheaval and repression sometimes go unquestioned because of the rhetorical baggage that goes with them. Bergman's way of exposing the content of human conflict is anti-ideological, but his moral anger bears latent political meaning. He reduces a state of warfare to the level of personal violence, where it can be explored in detail, and views it as the last measure to which frustrated people resort when their associations are blocked for the sake of someone's self-gratification...
THERE is a story about Mary Bunting that goes something like this: one day early in her term as president she was trying to convince several wealthy alumnae to contribute large sums to their alma mater when she received a phone call from her housekeeper. The bees from her son's apiary had somehow escaped and were flying around the house and the housekeeper was distraught. Bunting, thinking of first things first, said, "Just tell them to be good and I'll be home as soon as I can," and returned to the alumnae...