Word: bluestockingism
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"By choice she did not emphasize her feminine qualities. Though her features were strong, she was not unattractive and might have been quite stunning had she taken even a mild interest in clothes. This she did not. There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at...
The comparison with a redneck superstar might outrage bluestocking Wilde partisans, but it isn't quite the heresy it seems. Like Elvis, Wilde was a fiercely ambitious hinterlander who took the cultural establishment by storm ("I am not English, I am Irish--which is quite another thing," he stipulated). And...
When Rogers proposed that she run, he recalls that "she looked as if she'd been shot." Not for long. After a weekend of consulting with her husband, she called back and said, in a typical old-Mary locution, "I think we have reason to talk." The new Mary emerged...
In fact, killings and bombings by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army have been cut drastically this year. That did not stop the militant Protestant followers of the Rev. Ian R.K. Paisley, the working-class rabble-rouser who is as contemptuous of what he calls the "bluestocking brigade...
Some of her co-workers find her aloof-even cool-a very private person. But, says a colleague: "She is not only an intellectual, she's also a very funny, witty girl." A bit bored with her bluestocking image, Nancy recently joked that "I really should have been a...