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...first came to Extension in 1960, a returned Fulbright bride at once delighted and confined by responsibilities to a professionally over-committed young husband ('55, '58) and our first-born. Having temporarily relinquished my prospects for continuing formal education, I was thrilled to imagine that despite biological destiny I might have my family cake and conquer it, too. I enrolled in "A Survey of Spanish-American Literature" under Professor Juan Marichal, now chairman of the Department of Romance languages, and have been translating Pablo Neruda slowly ever since...
...targets were some moviegoers emerging from a late-night screening of A Streetcar Named Desire at Tel Aviv's Cinema One theater. Next the fedayeen pitched grenades in the direction of a nearby hall where a wedding reception was in progress. Caught in the attack were the terrified bride and groom, who ran for their lives. As Israeli police returned the fire, the fedayeen ducked into the 28-room Savoy Hotel on Ge'ula Street, where they took hostage a dozen surprised guests. By the tune Israeli paratroopers liberated the four-story building in a carefully coordinated predawn...
...assistant director of a day-care center in Manhattan. Still, when Guillermo, 29, and his fiancée, 28, a French and music teacher in New York City, travel to The Hague to be married this summer, the ceremonies will be more than a city hall affair. The bride: Princess Christina, youngest daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. Christina, partially blind since birth, and her husband will begin married life in New York with a royal blessing. "We are sure this will be a very happy marriage," says Queen Juliana, an opinion Bernhard says he underwrites...
...women who don't understand their motivations this well, the games they've played with men have been far from liberating. For the protagonist of "Mother to Dinner", the game results in a nightmare. She is a bride of 11 months, married to a man she barely knows. He saw her in a blue dress at a party, she went out with him more than with anyone else, so they got married. And yet, she can't remove herself from the strong influence of her loving domineering mother...
...gave no thought to the nipples grown suddenly brown and competent; I packed, instead, my suit-case: I filled it with all the white clothes I own. Why are you taking white clothes to the hospital? Miles said to me. I laughed. Why did I? White, for a bride; white, for a corpse; white, for a woman who refuses to be a woman...