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With two other women, she founded Everywoman's Village in Van Nuys, Calif. It consists of a grassless half-acre, six bungalows, and a staff of 15 teachers who give courses ranging from ballet, oil painting, psychology and foreign languages to exotica like yoga and flowered bead making. The classes are limited to 15, the atmosphere is totally informal and there are no grades. The school's aim is to be a link between the housewife and the university. "Most housewives are afraid to resume their education in a formal classroom," says Lynn, "because they feel threatened...
...really love Gibran. The Prophet is my Bible on the road," smiled Hope Diamond nee Leona Bonaccolte), pointing to a well thumbed copy which lay on her dressing room table atop the pile of sundry boudoir exotica she was rummaging through...
...pastels and fresh flowered prints, acknowledge the shapes they clothe; so do the coats, with narrow belts that define waistlines instead of camouflaging them. There was not a pair of pants or a bared navel in the show, or a single lament for their absence. The Bohan brand of exotica-soft silk tunics, rajah coats, full-length sheaths cut above the ankle in front-may have been inspired by the designer's trip to India last fall. But the results are all Paris, and all Paris rejoiced...
...sandwich." He remained in private practice nonetheless; he owned a $12,000 home near Redondo Beach, was earning $12,-000 a year. But it palled, and finally he told a radiologist friend: "I'm going back. I can't stand doing hernias and hemorrhoids any more." Some Exotica. Signing on as medical missionaries for $3,230 a year, the Carlsons arrived at Wasolo in October 1963-and were promptly greeted by several cases of hernia and hemorrhoids...
...Carlson wrote to friends back home, there was some exotica as well: "The teen-age boy with hemoglobin of only 20% who looks as if he had been blown up with the helium gas used for balloons at the circus-only the skin of his leiTs is like old, dried, peeling leather"; the African whose homemade poo-poo gun had exploded and taken half his face with it; the difficult obstetrical cases, as for instance the pregnant patient who had to be operated on for a ruptured uterus. "The lady had come about 75 miles in trucks. When...