Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pulitzer Prize-winning poet talks about the job of being a housewife. She enjoys it. The author and her husband bought a house...
...postmaster-general of North America, you could have written"), exclamatory archaisms ("By thunder, I know the wench!") or arch witticism ("I invented bifocals because I thought a man should be able to see the girl in his arms at one and the same time as her husband coming in at the far door...
...enthusiastic about a student who is analyzing novels according to whether they observe the Ten Commandments. "I don't know if she'll come out with a statistical study," says Teacher Munroe, "but she will have a different view of social behavior and, perhaps, literature." Adds Husband Lee Munroe, like his wife a Ph.D. from Harvard: "Right now the girls don't know the difference between social work and social science. But by the time they're seniors, they will be able to use the computer to analyze data." Until that happy day, instruction is backed...
...from obscurity, she disgraces him in public, and they have to leave town. Back in Paris, she wangles him a place in a prominent law firm. To help with expenses, she goes to work for an ad agency. Several men pursue her hotly, but she is faithful to her husband. Unfortunately, he imagines she is not, and he abandons the poor woman, who is left with a broken heart...
...Levine has dressed it up as what used to be called "a woman's picture." Amidst sumptuous settings, supposedly inhabited by the haut monde of San Francisco, Heroine Susan Hayward plays a world-famous "sculptor, pagan, alley-cat" who detests her domineering mother (Davis), betrays her war-hero husband, unwittingly snares a gigolo with her daughter until one calamitous night when the kid picks up a chisel and . . . What follows is a custody battle, some gamy dialogue, and numerous untidy revelations, none of them very interesting. "With you," observes one of Susan's playmates...