Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affair of the heart with Vita Sackville-West, wife of Harold Nicholson. Bell thankfully cannot conclude that their intimacy involved physical love, though Virginia's reputation as an "aging Sapphist' no doubt derives from her deep attachments to select females. In another relationship with a rival female author. Katharine Mansfield, however. Virginia exposed the malice and narcissism native to her character, qualities she shared with her father. Their friendship was compounded on both sides of feelings of jealousy and attraction. Woolf, with her deep sense of class, occasionally considered Mansfield, who dressed and behaved, she thought, like a tart, only...
Apathy. At home Nixon was getting off rather lightly. There was no spasm of protest, as occurred during the Cambodian invasion. With Congress out of session, there was little opportunity for concentrated opposition there, though there were rumblings. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield promised to push once again for antiwar legislation. "It is long since past the time to stop worrying about saving face," he said, "and concentrate on saving lives and our own sense of humanity." Ted Kennedy issued a subdued call to arms: "Without question, if the war goes on, if the current tragic stalemate continues, many Senators...
...STOWE, VT. Though Mount Mansfield (4,393 ft.) is only a foothill by Alpine or Rocky Mountain standards, it offers what many consider the finest skiing in the East. Novices can stem their way along the four-mile-long Toll Road; experts can plummet down the narrow, twisting chutes of the National or the Goat. Everyone can enjoy the eclectic night life, which runs from fierce rock to folk singing, in the restaurants and hotels of the compact, bustling village. The average cost of a week's vacation, including meals, moderately priced sleeping accommodations* and lift tickets...
...much for modernism, Bloomsbury, the avantgarde. The once experimental stream of consciousness that James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield pioneered has now been diverted. Still, Edward Albee had good reason to be afraid of Virginia Woolf. She was among the great innovative novelists; she had the enormous courage to trust her private imaginings and to interpret them even though those visions were sometimes insane. In the same sunburst year of 1922 when Ulysses and The Waste Land appeared, she published her first major novel, Jacob's Room. It was hailed for the beauty of its imagery and the uniquely...
...number of factual errors and incorrect data. Examples: the book refers to "former Congressman Clem Long"; presumably Maryland Democratic Congressman Clarence Long. It cites Missouri Congressman Richard Boiling for putting his wife on the congressional payroll; she works in his office but is an unpaid volunteer. Senator Mike Mansfield, the book says, served in the House until 1955 (wrong); it adds that he was elected to the Senate in 1952 (right...