Word: matronic
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...play begins in Rolfe's London apartment. Creditors banging at the door, an over-sexed matron after the rent, Rolfe drones away at his avocation of writing. After shuffling through one assumed identity after another all his life, he has little to comfort him but a purple neckscarf and his selfesteem. Besides his disappointments as an artist, his principal frustration is the failure to secure a "vocation" in the Church of Rome, to which he converted "overnight" at the age of 26. Not even a lowly "clerk" let alone a prelate, this blustery paranoid and repressed homosexual aspires...
...house"? The "gardener" says, "Wait a minute," goes through the back door and emerges at the front, getting a little of his own back at the deliveryman's discomfiture. A black woman lawyer in a federal agency was eating lunch in a suburban restaurant when a « hite matron approached her and asked if she was interested in babysitting...
...Nixon? What ever happened to the matron in the Republican cloth coat, the silent partner in the Nixon marriage who never appeared quite comfortable as the wife of a public man? She has got to the point of enjoying flattering headlines and TV footage, for one thing. For another, she has acquired sufficient self-confidence to face pickets, skeptical reporters and ordinary citizens with the same aplomb. Finally, she has discovered a worthy cause within her ken: voluntary social action...
Finally, in the mind of one who actually believed it, the happy-matron-career-woman notion promoted by Radcliffe is a dreadful illusion, and one which if taken seriously can keep us not only from developing our own possibilities, but from relating to other women. The contempt and mistrust women have for each other, even when they are "friends," is the counterpart of the excessive awe we feel towards men, and part of what makes us sense that we would be utterly desolate without a man in our lives...
...most auto manufacturers in headlong pursuit of the youth market, General Motors Corp. has saturated much of its car advertising with the hip jargon of the dragstrip. Yet for many consumers, including the young, the ads, with their mod vernacular, seemed as strained and unbelievable as a middle-aged matron attempting to dance the watusi. Now, faced with an uncertain economy and slumping car sales, G.M. officials have apparently decided to end their fixation with power and youth in advertising and focus it instead on value and comfort...