Word: marianism
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...miracle of the middle years that even Adams did not expect, according to Samuels, was his remarkably happy marriage at 34 to 28-year-old Marian ("Clover") Hooper, a witty, independent-minded fellow Brahmin. Characteristically, Adams says not a word of wife or marriage in the Education, possibly because the twelve-year idyll was to end in Marian's suicide after her father's death. But until then Henry Adams basked in the reflected glow of the brightest and most exclusive salon keeper of the Washington of the late...
Rats in the White House. "I gravitate to a capital by a primary law of nature," Adams had said, and in 1877 he and Marian settled close by the White House. (President John Adams was Henry's great-grandfather, John Quincy Adams his grandfather.) Under her 20-tapered chandelier, Marian gathered the famous but never the infamous. Hearing that Sarah Bernhardt, whose private life scandalized the Adamses, was about to embark on a U.S. tour, Marian fired off fair warning to her father in Massachusetts: "See to it that Boston snubs her off the stage." Marian's letters...
...Adams, grubbing in the archives of the State Department to research his historical work, Marian and her salon had the tonic appeal of the latter-day businessman's double martini before dinner. After Marian's suicide, grief-stricken Henry Adams drastically curtailed his social activities, often spoke of his own death as coinciding with Marian's. Author Samuels believes that Adams oversentimentalized his tragedy, but points out that extravagant mourning was a 19th century fashion-Queen Victoria had the dead Albert's evening clothes laid out daily before dinner; the poet Rossetti buried all his unpublished...
...What the newspaper-reading portion of the people read and remember here is not that Marian Anderson, Jackie Robinson and Ralph Bunche are accepted citizens of the United States, but that people who have the same color skin that they have are being treated as inferiors...
...Naked Earth (20th Century-Fox] may come as an unpleasant shock to Richard Todd fans. Actor Todd is well-known as the movie Robin Hood, romping boyishly about Sherwood Forest, bunging arrows at the Sheriff of Nottingham and dimpling at sight of Maid Marian. Now, all of a sudden, it turns out that he is shacked up with a Marseille whore in a thatched hut in Uganda...