Word: maidening
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...Harold Ross when he was a private working on Stars and Stripes. They married, then combined their resources to form The New Yorker. In 1921 she also helped organize the Lucy Stone League to demand, among other things, the legal right of married women to keep their maiden names. Grant herself followed the practice throughout her marriage to Ross and later to William B. Harris, a FORTUNE editor...
...never had a particularly important place in American literature; as a rule they have had smaller roles than in English, Russian or French fiction. In Love and Death in the American Novel, Critic Leslie Fiedler argues that U.S. writers are fascinated by the almost mythological figures of the Fair Maiden and the Dark Lady, but "such complex full-blooded passionate females as those who inhabit French fiction from La Princesse de Clèves through the novels of Flaubert and beyond are almost unknown in the works of our novelists." There are memorable figures, of course: Hawthorne's Hester...
Consortium. In its most inflexible manifestations, this doctrine has meant, for instance, that a wife must take her husband's name, though she can use her maiden name professionally. Last week, specifically, the Supreme Court upheld a state's right to require a married woman to use her husband's name on her driver's license. Most states allow a husband to sue for loss of consortium if his wife is injured, while only a minority extend a parallel right to the wife when the husband is incapacitated. North Carolina and Missouri even allow a woman...
...emotions the director builds for his story. The tennis players, most of them Jews, are welcomed into the grounds because of their exclusion from the Ferrara tennis club under the new "Jewish laws." Their mood is carefree, nevertheless, and is echoed by that of their hosts, the blond ice-maiden Micol (Dominique Sanda), and her sickly brother Alberto (Helmut Berger). Among their guests are Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio), a childhood friend, and Malnate (Fabio Testi), a gentile visitor from Milan. Wrinkling her nose at Malnate's Fascist predilection for the workers of Ferrara, Micol returns his appraising once-over with...
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