Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians most discomfort is housing," according to Bergson. The average city-dweller has a living space of only six square meters. Here, too, however, progress is being made. "On the way to Moscow's Vnukova airport," Bergson reports, "I saw more housing than I've ever seen in my life...
...wrong, it is simply not inclusive. While Mrs. Owen may find it indispensible to the running of Winthrop House, Mrs. Bundy may have her teapot on the top shelf, out of the reach of her four small children, and Mrs. Schlesinger Jr. may use hers for a still life. Though the University affects all faculty wives its impact varies. The wives of the Masters, department chairmen, and administrative officials have a good deal "thrust upon them." A majority of the responsibility for hostessing newcomers' teas, "visiting firemen's" dinners, and graduate and undergraduate meetings is theirs. Others elect a university...
With such diversity the lives of Faculty women differ greatly. Mrs. Owen, as wife to the Master of Winthrop, has found that her life is to a large extent contained within Winthrop. A typical month's calendar, crowded with student teas each Tuesday afternoon, tutor's dinners, Winthrop House galas such as the Christmas party and the spring musical, visiting scholars, and House committee dinners, leaves her only a few days in the month to attend to her old interest, politics. "I find that I can never give to the League of Women Voters a substantial, consecutive amount of time...
Rather melodramatically, Ghosts tells of the "lifeless old ideals, the dead beliefs," which forced Helene Aving to remain married to her wealthy but dissolute husband, whose venereal disease leads to his son's insanity. Since his death, these ideals have seemed to Mrs. Aving increasingly hollow, the sham life she led increasingly meretricious...
...stuck. He had produced one thinly disguised story about his roommate's sex life, two reminiscences of childhood in Dobbs Ferry, and the coffee cups poem. He hated the idea of writing a "potboiler," but he was three thousand words behind. Three times that weeks he had started another reminiscence of his Dobbs Ferry childhood, only to give up in disgust...