Word: isabel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lectures on women-related issues are named in honor of the late Isabel G. MacCaffrey, Kenan Professor of History and Literature, who died last year while serving as the first female chairman of the History and Literature Committee...
...knows how many Argentines mysteriously disappeared during the reigns of Isabel Perón and the military regime that toppled her three years ago. Human rights organizations, including the London-based Amnesty International, charge that since 1975 15,000 desaparecidos have been abducted, tortured and possibly killed by agents of the government - without authorization by any court of law. Argentine activists guess that the total might be as high as 12,000, while the government insists that fewer than 5,000 people were arrested under executive powers invoked during a state of siege that was imposed...
...ISABEL V. SAWHILL, 41, is director of the National Commission for Manpower Policy, which advises Congress and the President on employment issues (operators who answer the commission's phones now say, "National Commission for Employment Policy," though Sawhill has not yet been able to make an official change from the rather sexist old name). A native of Washington, D.C., Sawhill received her economics doctorate from New York University, and remembers that she was often the only woman in her classes. She soon found that the best opportunity for advancement was in Government; and, since the late...
...foundation gave the endowment fund to Harvard in honor of the founders of the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation, Ethel and Jack Hausman and Isabel and Leonard H. Goldenson...
Especially in the middle of the novel, Gordon's prose--saturated with adjectives; empty, if not revolting characters; and lurid sexual details--reads like something out of Mademoiselle or Ladies' Home Journal (in both she has published short stories). but when Margaret, Isabel's old housekeeper, reappears towards the end, the writing tightens up again. Margaret practically embodies that stubborn, un-American subculture, which the author seems to identify with Catholicism. Even if Final Payments lacks a clear message and Mary Gordon's language often crumples under the weight of her cliches, at least one gets the sense...