Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believing that my mother's cousin, Annette Wildey, posed for this statue. We were told that no one outside our family knew who the model was. It came as a shock to read the name you gave. It is possible that she used her mother's maiden name (which I've never known) in order to spare the family "disgrace." Annette Wildey is no longer living, but I would like to perpetuate her memory by attaching her real name to the lovely Diana...
...myriad of ways her mother never dreamed of-freer morally from the restraints of home and the strictures of religion, freer economically from dependence on family allowance, freer geographically from the confines of the home town, and freer sexually through her increased security against unwanted pregnancy. Today's maiden is often assumed to be less concerned with being chaste than being chased-and caught, perhaps often-before she marries...
...matron, maiden...
...swing-wing F-lll. As the British government publicly interpreted it, the move was made on "purely financial grounds," but the whole truth is that the French have already gone ahead and developed their own variable-geometry fighter, the Dassault Mirage 3G, which is due to make its maiden flight this month. Presumably undisturbed is the ambitious joint project to build the Concorde, a supersonic transport scheduled to go into commercial service in 1971. But to the British, this is less important than the now abandoned swing-wing scheme, which Defense Minister Denis Healey had characterized as "the core...
...mischievous elf Puck is the thread that weaves in and out of the several plots and groups of characters, and holds the work together. For this, Jerry Dodge is unflaggingly admirable. When he says, "And here the maiden, sleeping sound,/ On the dank and dirty ground," his way of dropping vocal pitch on the second line is hilarious. He darts about like lightning, and scampers up a tree as easily as a cat. Indeed, at the core of his performance are postures, gestures, and movements drawn from classical ballet. Although he is understandably not in a class with Arthur Mitchell...