Word: clare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine opens with "Legendary Lives: In unique and varied ways they have extended the boundaries of experience." This is perhaps the most discomfiting segment in the issue; this is also the first and last time you are going to see the biographies of Clare Boothe Luce, Lucretia Mott and Janis Joplin on the same page. The next section, "A Share of the Power," includes portraits of women who have succeeded in traditionally masculine areas: politics, publishing, business, etc. The expressions of these women are frighteningly similar mixtures of ambition, confidence, and cold strength...
...Clare Kristofco
...Clare Stover...
...presented in 1906, it is by no means spavined with age. It is the genre itself that has disappeared. We have grown accustomed to situation comedy, sight-and-gag comedy and black comedy. But the last instance of a social comedy based on an assured upper class was probably Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, and that play is now 40 years old. Essentially, the New York idea is divorce and, slightly more scandalously, the notion that divorced couples can be amiable friends...
...going to London to replace incoming Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, Mrs. Armstrong, 48, will become the 14th woman to be named a U.S. ambassador since World War II (six are currently on duty). She is also the first woman to win a major ambassadorial post since Clare Boothe Luce served in Rome in the Eisenhower years...