Word: houseworker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiction editor of the New Yorker, he can make a room, a house, a whole town come to life without raising his voice. Nothing happens in Time Will Darken It that small-town readers won't immediately recognize as next-door truth, but what does happen (gossip, housework, dinner parties, childbearing) is conveyed sensitively, in clean and restrained prose. Time Will Darken It is often too loosely constructed, frequently lingers with characters who don't help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author...
Inasmuch as this average TIME-reading woman is married (76% are), her daytime hours are spent largely at home. She does her own housework (although 33% have part-or full-time help), takes an active part in church and civic affairs, bought four new dresses or suits last year (almost all of them tailored to the "new look") without much help from her husband - although 13% said he was there when the purchases were made. She has nine pairs of shoes, five hats, and four pieces of jewelry which she values...
Married Woman. By 10:30 every morning, Margy had the housework finished and nothing to do the rest of the day. She read novels, kept a budget, visited her mother twice each week, and missed the talk of the girls in the office. Soon after she married, Margy found her husband was passive to her. " 'The whole trouble,' she told herself bluntly, 'is that I'm a married woman and don't get to sleep enough with my husband...
After school, Miss Mowrey must grade papers, prepare for the next day's schoolwork, help her sister with the housework, find time to visit the parents of problem students. She rarely sees a movie, does practically no reading beyond what is required for her class work, and is annoyed to find herself slipping out of touch with the news. She climbs into bed each night exhausted...
...fairly literate things. We're making no soap operas at all ... When the radio's on, people only-half listen, but when your eyes are centered, your attention is centered ... the quality must be higher. I shudder to think of what we'll do to housework...