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Compassionately, the British playwright David Rudkin shows us a man and a woman struggling under that curse. Colin (Brian Murray) and Anne (Roberta Maxwell) have been married for a few years and are childless. They have entered the bitter season of their relatives' and neighbors' titters and taunts. The couple consults a medical adviser, a "semenologist...
...theme of the play, greed so compelling as to raise it to an obsessive lust for money. In this reincarnation, the setting has become San Francisco in the 1890s. Volpone has become Foxwell J. Sly, played with shark's-tooth gusto by George C. Scott. Rich and childless. Sly feigns grave illness in order to arouse the hopes of avaricious, fawning and wealthy townsfolk who hope to become his heir...
...born in relative poverty, the son of an unassuming parson who died when the boy was seven. He was thereupon adopted by his childless uncle Thomas, a Gargantuan export-import trader (tea, codfish, whale oil) who had built the first mansion on Beacon hill. Uncle Thomas put young Hancock through Harvard, class of '54, and then eight years in the counting room of the House of Hancock. When Thomas Hancock died, he left his 27-year-old nephew a fortune of ?80,000, the largest in New England...
Even in death Hughes created more mysteries. Childless and twice divorced, he left no immediate family. He had often stated that he intended to bequeath his fortune to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Miami-headquartered organization that in the past decade has dispensed $8.8 million in research grants. In that way he would have avoided all federal estate taxes. But by week's end no one had produced his will. There is growing suspicion that the eccentric Hughes may have died before executing a legally binding document. If so, his fortune, estimated at a total of $2.3 billion...
...religious traditions had an influence on menstrual troubles. Among Jewish women, those who accepted the biblical ban on sexual intercourse during menstruation generally had the worst periods. Catholic women who saw motherhood as their goal had more menstrual troubles than Catholic women who were willing to pursue careers and childless marriage. Similarly, in a door-to-door survey of 1,000 men and women in northern California, Psychologist Paige found that those who celebrated the role of wife and mother were most likely to accept the menstrual taboo. Her conclusion: "Adherence to menstrual taboos should decrease as the importance...