Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your excellent resume of the giddy theology of Paul Tillich suggests the possibility of his having ridden on the same train with the little girl who, on leaving Virginia, shouted: "Goodbye, God, we're moving to Arkansas...
Despite the new freedom, the Japanese girl has a terrible time meeting a man socially; and when she does, etiquette forbids her probing his family background and prospects. Even among the most emancipated there is a gradual drift back to the miai, or formal meeting preparatory to an arranged marriage. But there is a big difference: instead of parents' having the final say, the young men and women have obtained a reasonable veto power, and, after a miai, will often see each other for several months before making a decision. Says an observer: "A lot of things are changing...
...Sicilian scheme of things, nothing is so important for a girl as her honor-unless perhaps it is the size of her dowry. In the case of Vincenzina d'Urso, a willowy girl of 21 with chestnut hair, the dowry fell short of the expectations of the bridegroom's family. Words were exchanged, doors slammed; Vincenzina's marriage to Enzo d'Agostino, a 21-year-old truck driver, was abruptly called...
Raisin might be somber, or merely sentimental, if its milieu were not so sharply observed, its speech so flavorful, and its infectious sense of fun so caustic. Much of the laughter wells up around Beneatha, a girl of earnest intellectual fads. When a Nigerian boy friend introduces her to a bit of African lore, she promptly decks herself out as "the queen of the Nile," and whirls across the room to click off a jazz program ("Enough of this assimilationist junk...
...beaded feminine charms catch the eye of a much-married millionaire (Joe E. Brown). Curtis meanwhile finds time to forsake female impersonation long enough to quick-change into yachting cap and blazer, and woo Marilyn with a fairly good impersonation of Cary Grant. At the end, boy wins girl, and old boy is still hotly pursuing his falsied Lemmon...