Word: maia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Hope. The Maias is a social chronicle on the grand scale, a 633-page epic that depicts the decline of the illustrious house of Maia, and with it the degeneration of the Portuguese aristocracy. The decline reaches the critical stage when Pedro da Maia shoots himself because his wife has run off with another man and taken her small daughter along. Fortunately for the Maias, Pedro's absconding spouse has left a son behind, and Pedro's aged father undertakes to regenerate the family by nurturing its last hope...
...Picassos done in the '30s are mostly domestic. Only one before 1939-that ol a nun torn asunder by a bomb during the Spanish Civil War-echoes the horror of Guernica. Picasso painted still lifes, a bird or two, portraits of Dora and Picasso's daughter Maia. But one da>' he finished an anguished woman who looked as if she were racked by some grisly disease. As World War II descended on Europe. Picasso's women became savage, lunatic figures done in colors that scream with rage. The agony vanished as suddenly as it came: once...
Reduced Role. Midwifery may be the world's second oldest ' profession, once ranked among its most respected. Plato made no distinction between mother and midwife, used the same word (maia) for both. An old Norwegian proverb advised: "The greatest joy is to become a mother; the second greatest is to be a midwife." But since 1648, when male doctors-at Paris' Hôtel-Dieu-were first permitted to attend a mother during a normal delivery, the role of the midwife throughout much of the world has been reduced to that of a mere birth attendant, patronized...