Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A Neat Trick. "Claire McAuley" was married in the church at the age of 18, and two years later, "after a series of misfortunes which eventually saw my legal, valid husband behind bars and bigamously married to another," her bishop granted her permission to get a civil divorce. Thus at...
Marilyn's childhood (TIME cover, May 14, 1956) was so traumatic that Freud could have developed half his theories from her case history alone. Her teen-age marriage was a failure. So was a 1954 marriage to Yankee Star Joe Di Maggio. After that, while married to Playwright Arthur...
In a recent issue of Soviet Weekly, Academician Mikhail Lavrentyev, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, berated Soviet schools and universities for not producing more and better trained scientists. Much of the trouble, he said, comes from the "divorce" between research institutes and universities. The best scientists avoid...
Through the Fields of Clover is concerned, more or less, with What Is Happening to the Sanctity of the American Divorce. A nice old Massachusetts couple decide to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary with a family reunion. All of their sons and daughters have been divorced at least once, and...
This transparent attempt at Meaning is in tune with the paper-thin plot line. Divorced husband, about to marry young sophisticate, is confronted with former wife days before divorce becomes final, with expected result. Author Jean Kerr abandons characterization at any time for the sake of a clever line, so...