Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MARGARET B. YOUNG...
...generally ignoring what a young Iowa girl called "that silly sports effort." Munich's gala atmosphere has also drawn an older, more pecunious group: the international set, complete with titled leaders. Ensconced in carefully protected Hilton Hotel suites, far removed from the surging street crowds, are Prince Philip, Princess Margaret and their highnesses, Rainier and Grace. Unlike the youthful tourists, however, the beautiful people last week showed keen interest in some of the Olympic competition, especially the dressage qualification in horseback riding at the exclusive Riem Riding Academy, and trap and skeet shooting on the elegant Hockbruck course...
...Manhattan's Margaret Sanger Research Bureau, clinic workers include teen-agers like Kathy Hull, 17, who gets course credits at her Brooklyn high school for volunteering. Chocolate cookies are passed around at the rap sessions that patients attend before they are examined and given contraceptives; boy friends are invited to the meetings and may even be present at the pelvic examinations if their girl friends agree. Said one who did: "He held my hand, and I was glad he cared enough to be there...
Though the narrative is occasionally crude, Author Durham has one important veteran's trait. The reader senses at once that he is in sure hands and trusts her. One feels that, like Margaret Mitchell, she knows absolutely everything about her main character and could tell as many tales as Scheherazade about her. Producer-Director Eleanor Perry, who has bought the book for the movies, has proclaimed it "the first Women's Lib western"-just what the movement needs. The remark is understandable because Catherine is ultimately stronger and less rigid than...
Such is only the shell of this wonderful, disarmingly fluty novel, which is Margery Sharp's 27th book. Antoinette's foster mother, who tells the story, speaks what at first seems a dithering Dame Margaret Rutherford prose: "As Sir David and I had agreed, summer was wearing on, and after summer one must expect autumn." Yet she possesses a ruthlessly unsentimental, almost primeval attachment to the retarded child, whose still, strange presence dominates her life - until the mother returns with blithe hopes and confident of "cur ing" the innocent by psychotherapy...