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...first book of po etry until the age of 44. The material world gains in importance and the rare leisure hours are steeped in philosophy. The demise of Stevens' mother is a pre sentiment of Sunday Morning. "Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,/ With in whose burning bosom we devise/ Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Sellers: Surreptitious Sonneteer | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Laser Beam. Her voice is only part of her appeal. At 31, Flicka is a trim size 8, with a modest but becoming bosom, rich brown tresses and a stage presence that somehow combines innocence and the poise of a pro. Says she, with disarming modesty: "I find solace in the fact that because of the ephemeral nature of the art, my performance, no matter how bad, cannot do permanent damage to Rossini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Von Stade: Forget the Magic | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...convenient, if cowardly, back exit out of marriage. In the name of "doing his own thing," and mostly because everyone else was doing it, a man could demand either divorce or separation (offering to pay alimony and child support, of course) and persuade himself that in the liberated bosom of the new society he would act out his existential errands where his embittered father had been forced to drown that restlessness in work and drink...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: For Beta or for Worse | 10/5/1976 | See Source »

...Royal American Magazine has repeatedly warned women of the dangers they court by taxing their brains with too much learning. Similarly, a sentimentalist writing for the Pennsylvania Magazine advises women not to be too active, too witty or too cheerful. Praise is reserved for the young lady whose "gentle bosom burns,/ Like lamps plac'd near sepulchral urns,/ Or like the glowworm in the night,/ It gleams with melancholy light." Although John Adams is not an avowed adherent of this ethic, its influence is apparent in his recent explanation of why women should be denied the vote: "Their delicacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Remember the Ladies | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

Hidden Recorder. About the only time that Liz would show up at the office, according to the former assistant, would be for official receptions. In flashy tight clothes that played up her bosom, she flung herself toward photographers, urging Hays to get her pictured with Congressmen or celebrities. A former Hays staffer says she liked to pose "with lots of suggestion of mouth action." Once, Hays snapped at her: "For Christ's sake, you've been in enough pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sex Scandal Shakes Up Washington | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

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