Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gaily illicit valentines or her often vibrant cris du coeur, Edna Millay reshaped romantic love into lyrical sex, was one moment a heartbreaker, the next moment heartbroken. She made unconventionality chic, but could also, as in picketing for Sacco and Vanzetti, make protest resonant. There was something of a distaff Byron, about her, and on the stage of the '20s she was one kind of romantic lead as Scott Fitzgerald was another. Gallant, windblown, untidy, she was at once genuine and a little gimcrack, gifted and over-facile, bohemian and childishly boastful about how her candle burned at both...