Word: maud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mountbatten was not Victoria's last surviving great-grandson as you said in the story on his funeral [Sept. 17]. Another one is still very much alive, and he even wears a crown. I know, because he happens to be my King, Olav V of Norway, son of Maud, daughter of King Edward VII, who was Victoria...
...novels offer a character who grows convincingly from page to page. Dubin's Lives presents not only the hero but the women around him. Kitty, Fanny, Dubin's daughter Maud all pull away from their orbits around Dubin and strike out in directions he cannot predict. Without uttering a single polemic, Malamud builds one of the sharpest images of women's liberation in contemporary fiction...
Like so much else at Radcliffe, the Schlesinger snuck into existence without anybody at Harvard really noticing. In 1943, Maud Wood Park '98, a former women's suffrage advocate and the first president of the League of Women's Voters, gave her collection of documents from the suffrage movement to Radcliffe to form the basis of a women's rights collection...
...doctrines of Jansenism; principle and passion clash in all-night discussions. But Rohmer is also one of the wittiest of directors and, defying all the usual rules of film making, he has turned out some of the most delightful movies of the past decade: My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee, Chloe in the Afternoon and The Marquise of O... In Perceval he goes one fatal step further; it is not merely an intellectual movie. It is the essence of an intellectual movie and boring beyond all reasonable accounting...
...Night at Maud's. At the Brattle, Friday at 8. With director Rohmer in person...