Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette: edited by Robert Phelps. A life of sensualism and intellectual adventure is traced in Colette's random reminiscences; nothing in her own sensitive fiction is as fascinating as the story of her emergence from the shadow of a cynical, exploiting husband...
...gratifying to see my husband's report on federalism cited in your "Marble-Cake Government" Essay [May 27]. But he would have argued with your subhead: "Washington's New Partnership with the States." As he made clear, the partnership is as old as the states. There has always been an intermingling of functions, though it is more accelerated and visible...
...darkness. But the facts of the Deadwyler case-demonstrated to all through the dumb, impartial TV eye-carried conviction. Negro witnesses contradicted one another repeatedly, offering little to back up Mrs. Barbara Deadwyler's story that Bova had stuck his revolver through the car window to shoot her husband deliberately. One swore that the shot was fired from a moving police car; others divided on the crucial point as to whether the Deadwyler car had lurched forward after it stopped, as Bova said it had done, and caused the investigating policeman to fire his revolver involuntarily...
...stranger on a bus, invited him home for a meal. Whereupon he broke her arm and raped her. After granting $3,337 compensation, the board slashed it to $2,668 on the ground that the victim was 20% responsible. >A man of 29 was shot by the husband of the woman with whom he was living. The husband went to prison, and the wounded lover got $1,512. >A boy of eight was blinded with a stick by another boy of eight, who could not be charged because ten is the age of criminal responsibility in Britain. The victim, though...
...fanaticism. She railed against his playing ball because it interfered with school and farm chores, tried to stop him from attending grownups' games for fear he would be hit by a foul ball. Luckily, Juan's older brother Gonzalo and his sister's husband, Prospero Villalona, were baseball nuts too. By the time he was nine, Juan could throw a curve (his lopsided, homemade baseballs wouldn't do anything else), and he quit school after the eleventh grade "because I was crazy about the game...