Word: girlhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superior to that displayed by the same actors in the roles they take in the season's other two offerings. Darcy Pulliman, in the ingenue role of Ellie Dunn, performs most impressively. Unrecognizable from her competently giddy Minnie Fay in The Matchmaker, Pulliman's transformation here from sweet innocent girlhood to wise and willful womanhood is inspired. She comes to Captain Shotover's nautically decorated household to visit her friend Hesione, who schemes to save Ellie from marriage to a rich old industrialist. In the bargain she receives the heartbreaking knowledge that her hero of brief acquaintance, the swashbuckling Marcus...
...Manhattan, Reporter-Researcher Margaret Boeth interviewed " reborn evoked in Greenwich Village - an assignment that evoked memories of her girlhood in Cleveland, Miss. "I haven't seen this kind of hard-rock fundamentalism," she says, "since I used to sit on a ditch bank and watch the traveling, trembling preacher whip up a crowd." When Boeth interviewed Evangelist Arthur Blessitt in New York, she learned that they were from the same part of Mississippi and that Blessitt had once led a congregation in her home town...
...training in protest began early. In 1892, when she was only five, her mother took her to a women's suffrage convention. She still remembers being moved by a Susan B. Anthony speech. "All through my girlhood," she recalls, "I ushered at suffrage meetings and distributed leaflets." She graduated from M.I.T. with a B.S. in architecture in 1909. She worked as a draftsman until World War I, when she became a full-time feminist. She carried the movement to rural Massachusetts, making "222 speeches in 14 weeks...
...fills a whole room of the Louvre. There visitors are free to ramble past acres of pearly, naked flesh and hectares of jewels and velvet, observing Marie, attended by nymphs, monsters, peacocks, courtiers, gods, satyrs and angels, as she makes a near mythological progress from a shaky Italian girlhood to the role of Queen Regent for Louis XIII. This huge book-the year's most fabulous-acquaints the reader with the history and shows off the art far better than any number of visits to the Louvre...
...young revolutionaries who have come to prominence have accumulated a clearer public record than Angela Davis. Yet when she was charged with murder, the record, as always, left the same tantalizing gap: Who, really, is the woman behind the known facts and the favored, middle-class girlhood...