Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a question for Gloria Steinem: How many times in her job has she felt frustrated? Although I am now a full-time housewife, less than a year ago I was a working wife. I had one of nursing's "glamour" jobs in the intensivecare unit of a hospital. The demands of the job were emotionally satisfying. Yet at times I felt another disaster would make me leave...
...look what that pinko fluff-head's gone and done." If Archie Bunker greeted the news like that, who could blame him? When All in the Family finished taping for the season, Sally Struthers, who plays Archie's daughter, Gloria, went off to be a bank robber's lap doll in Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway. And if a starlet's going to make it, she's got to let folks know everything she's got. What Sally's got is nicely displayed by some horseplay in the new movie, which...
...show presents an easy target for critics, who can point to a simplicity bordering on mindlessness (women's liberation means that Gloria cooks breakfast with her mother), the show's lack of concern for the social and economic issues that surround raw bigotry, and Archie's unbelievability. But such criticisms would be missing the point; such problems are not particular to All in the Family, but are a symptom of TV's general vacuity. All characters, whether bourgeois or proletarian, are stereotyped, and consequently become a kind of substitute reality in the minds of their audiences. Several years ago, when...
...opening Magnificat by John Taverner was pure and on pitch--a welcome relief from the shakiness common to amateur groups' lead pieces at a concert. The chant that began the Magnificat was perfect simplicity and contrasted strongly with the thick polyphonic texture that followed. Of the eleven sections, the Gloria was superb. One huge melisma on the second syllable of principio seemed to suspend all motion and thought...
...does admire them. Shirley, Florynce, Bella, Betty, Gloria, Germaine, Kate. And when one of them comes to town, she will arrange, often with great difficulty, to go and hear her speak. She will make the complicated arrangements for the sitter to come and cover the home front for her and "liberate" her for a few hours. (This is the context in which that word is mainly used in her life...