Word: contrivedness
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Mrs. Barbara Whitner, 33, a petite Piedmont, Calif., housewife and former volunteer social worker, is not against welfare. Indeed, as she told a recent budget hearing of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, she wants to preserve public assistance for those who really need it. But in California, where a...
Pamela Hansford Johnson, in real life the wife of C.P. Snow, can hardly be described as an old boy. Still, she has contrived a remarkably deft version of a peculiarly masculine genre. Downs Park is a prep school-a staging area from which very little boys can go on to...
Noble Profession. One reason for the upset was that Bumpers came across as a cool, rational and intensely sincere candidate whose natural style contrasted sharply with the contrived, emotional preachings of Faubus. Articulate, handsome and husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), Bumpers, 45, laughed readily, shunned speech texts, spoke quietly and...
There's something that again the feminists are going to have to cope with -that males are much more fragile sexually. It's often difficult for males to perform sexually if they don't feel that the mood is just right. One of the problems here may...
Throughout the West, millions of people have formed their opinion of the military regime in Greece by viewing the French-Algerian film Z, the title of which is the Greek symbol for "he still lives." A powerfully contrived and brilliantly acted thriller (TIME, Dec. 5), Z purports to give a...