Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These familiar facts and some interesting new observations about the menopause are included in a new book, You'll Live Through It (Harper; $2.50), by Seattle's Dr. Miriam Lincoln. Greying Dr. Lincoln, who is 50 herself, attacks many old wives' tales about the menopause...
...Woman's Machinery. Change of life means that a woman is through with her childbearing days, but not necessarily her sexual life. In fact, says Dr. Lincoln, with the fear of pregnancy removed, many women relax completely and really enjoy sex for the first time in their lives...
...Stendhal character once said of women that "there's always something out of order in their machinery." Dr. Lincoln disagrees. A woman's life, she says, is roughly divided into three parts: childhood, womanhood and the years during and after the menopause. This final phase is not caused by any breakdown in a woman's machinery, says Dr. Lincoln; it is merely a part of the natural process of aging, and means that the hormone-secreting ovaries are getting tired...
...true, and after being captured was nursed for a year by a native woman. But he was forwarded to the zoo as soon as he was weaned, and his keeper, a lean, wiry fellow named Eddie Robinson, immediately taught him to wrestle, tackle and pass a football on the Lincoln Park lawn. This ended when Bushman was six Conscious of his 160 Ibs., he good-naturedly refused to go back to his cage one day; it took sweating zoo attendants three hours to get him back in stir and they never let him out again...
This shrewd journalist and Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer (Woodrow Wilson) in his peasant disguise is quoted more often than Lincoln. Santayana and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and just about as often as Franklin and Thoreau. Not many U.S. workers would go along with Grayson-Baker's ideas of the simple life: "Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and homemade bread-there...