Word: hausfrau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very happy 11th Birthday and a lot of 'Teddy Bears.' Your Friend, Elvis," and gave it to his landlady to mail. Bad move--she never sent it. When she died recently, relatives found it among her belongings and had it delivered to Golz, now a 50-year-old hausfrau. The letter's value is estimated at $6,000, peanuts really, compared with how Priscilla made...
Picking on Abigail Adams first, Mayo suggests that even though she's not the "submissive hausfrau" that the "lazy reader" would probably consider her to be, that's probably the only reason Council member Brent McGuire decided to choose her. Evidently playing the part of the "lazy reader" himself, Mayo ignores McGuire's explanation of why he chose Adams 300 years after her death, or even his praise of her strengths. What Mayo seems to focus on instead is the seeming contradiction that any strong female could "recognize the protective impulse in a man, [and] also invoke the name...
...cries of campus conservatives like Sebastian Conley's "Seth Lives" that Harvard doesn't want to understand conservatives, it's hard to believe that they're suffering too badly. All it takes to be a right-winger here is to rewrite history, to turn Abigail Adams into a submissive hausfrau and strip the Confederate Flag of all its racist overtones. To paraphrase Molly Ivins, afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable may have the charm of novelty, but it's not exactly courageous...