Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among other aging celebrators, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Russel Crouse were there, Writer-Feminist Jane Grant (first wife of The New Yorker's Harold Ross), Actress Margalo Gillmore, Composer Deems Taylor, and Author Margaret Case Harriman, who helped preserve the nights and noons of the Round Table with her book, The Vicious Circle. But the contracted circle no longer showed any viciousness, only a kind of vintage grace along with mild confessions and geriatric observations. "There must be a gang such as ours somewhere today," said Jane Grant. "But, of course, times have changed. For one thing, the writers...
...that marriage should involve a "union of souls," and not sexual companionship. Unfortunately the professor soon realizes that such a platonic arrangement is unsatisfactory. Eventually his wife, who has secured him a promotion and a seat in Parliament, yields to him--but only as a bribe for introducing her feminist bills into Parliament...
Died. E. (for Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst, 78, fire-breathing feminist and daughter of Britain's pioneering Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst; of a heart attack; in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Along with her mother and late sister Christabel, Sylvia invoked violence in the fight for women's suffrage between 1903 and 1918, led her militant followers in rock-tossing sorties against the Houses of Parliament, assaults upon 10 Downing Street. She landed in prison at least 15 times, went on hunger strikes to get out, promptly got tossed back into a cell as soon as her strength returned. After Britain...
...years in the House, a record surpassed by no other woman and only nine men; and Ohio's Frances Bolton, a wealthy Clevelander, expert on African affairs (the pages call her "the African Queen"), a yoga devotee (she stands on her head every day) and an anti-feminist ("I'm not particularly anxious to be equal to a lot of things men think are so important"). Gracie Pfost, a freckle-faced Congresswoman from Idaho, represents a rugged district almost as large as New England, regularly birls logs, descends into mines and rides in rodeos as a natural part...
...power in 1957, was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Bodh Gaya, India. Father of six grown children, Pibulsonggram took an oath of celibacy before a golden image of Buddha. In keeping with Buddhist doctrine, he was not required to divorce his devoted wife, Mme. La-iad, a renowned feminist...