Word: dorthea
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...People want to be on the broadcast," Lord says. And Lord describes the force "Nightline" can exert. He recalls that during the Hostage crisis, the program invited the Iranian charged affaires and Dorthea Morefield, a hostage's wife, to appear together. "In a live interview, she pressed the charge about why mail wasn't delivered to the hostages. We learned later that within one week after that show the mail was delivered through the process of confrontation...
...year later, in 1955, the dance group directed the writing and producing of a pageant about the life of Dorthea Lynde Dix. Miss Dix, famous for her campaigns to improve treatment of the mentally ill, was instrumental in the federal government's founding of St. Elizabeth's a century before...
...Madame Dorthea is a study of a bourgeois wife & mother in the early months of widowhood. A really good novelist could have made something of the theme with no sales-trimmings. Madame Undset puts it in the 18th Century, replete with archeological detail, dopes it to the teeth with "colorful," superfluous characters, whips up a spurious suspense, and still is too much of a bourgeois wife & mother to bring...
...clergyman's daughter, young Dorthea married a clergyman-an old one-and suffered several frigid years. When he died, she married Businessman Jorgen Thestrup and settled down placidly to "the natural, modest contentment which a female may achieve in a marriage sensibly contracted." This arrangement brought her, with the years, seven children and such morsels of natural, modest wisdom as the following...
...this point, with the wholehearted sympathy of at least some readers, Jorgen Thestrup mysteriously disappears, and Madame. Dorthea divides her time between her children, household duties, settling the estate, and flashbacks on her married life. All these domesticities are reported in an abundance which Tolstoy could have made wonderful and which Sigrid Undset's high-grade Dorothy Dix tone of voice makes tedious...