Word: leila
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Piercy explores the lives of three women of distinctly different backgrounds, temperament, and social class. Leila, the Cambridge academic who supports her director husband despite his frequent philandering, is the common tie that binds the rest of the book together. Finding herself with an unfilled space in her life after the death of her best friend, Leila decides to write a book about Becky Burgess, a young woman suspected of inciting her teenage love-toy to kill her husband. Meanwhile, Mary, Leila's housekeeper, desperately conceals the fact that, at 61 years of age, she finds herself living...
Piercy attempts to show the vulnerability of modern women, but instead depicts her female characters as essentially helpless, clinging to their husbands with whatever skills they can for fear of being left with nothing. Even Leila, supposedly the independent-minded professional, spent decades making excuses for her husband's frequent affairs with younger women. She only divorces him when he goes as far as moving in with his pregnant girlfriend...
While the new fellows had a local flavor, others came from around the country and around the world. Leila C. Schneps, a mathematician from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France and Mary E. K. Dakubu of the University of Ghana are the two international representatives...
...Leila F. Sahyoun '94, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students, said that her organization will help Hegazy in his relief efforts...
...senior goalie Leila Saddic (6.22 career goals-against-average), the defense, too, has played solidly, limiting opponents to 4.71 goals per game...