Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret that Fortas' cigar-smoking wife Carolyn was furious when L.B.J. named Fortas to the bench: he exchanged a law practice worth about $150,000 a year for a Supreme Court post that then paid only $39,500. (Mrs. Fortas, as a member of her husband's old firm, earns a reputed $100,000 a year...
...this happened in a man's dormitory room at Harvard, the husband would not get off, because he does not own the room...
SINCE AN American woman's achievement is still scored mostly in terms of her husband's and children's happiness and success, she has much less at stake than a man when she attempts a career. She is considered exceptional if she just tries. So she can afford to be less critical of herself than...
...sure I've learned a great deal more by being a father and husband that what I learned from books and classes," he adds...
...kind of surrealistic daze, Fidelman moves on to Venice, letting himself in for another of those tormenting Malamud women whose specialty is interrupted coition. The woman's homosexual husband, Beppo, interrupts this time to seduce Fidelman from his wife -and from art. Beppo is a truly queer dens ex machina; yet Malamud clearly intends him for the role. It is Beppo, in fact, who finally gives Fidelman the word on his "painter's progress": "After twenty years if the rooster hasn't crowed she should know she's a hen." And it is Beppo who points...