Word: mcginley
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...Autobiography, Chaplin (4) 5. The Kennedy Years, the New York Times and Viking Press (5) 6. The Kennedy Wit, Adler ( 7 ) 7. The Words, Sartre ( 6 ) 8. Life with Picasso, Gilot and Lake 9. The Future of Man, De Chardin ( 9 ) 10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...
...Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...
...Phyllis McGinley's Sixpence In Her Shoe should be required reading for every Radcliffe student...
...Planning a party may not test the intelligence expected in a chemistry experiment, but it does require an acute understanding of people. Raising children may not benefit from a textbook knowledge of their physiology, but it is a responsibility which demands sensitivity and good humor. In rustic England, Miss McGinley tells us, the successful housewife would occasionally find a sixpence in her shoe, a mark of appreciation for her special skills...
...Phyllis McGinley's paean to the American housewife is absurd [Oct. 9]. Housewifery is not a profession. Does one need an education to do a good job making beds? And is it any more "noble" to bake a cake than to teach a child to read? Not all members of the profession have the intellectual sanctuary of a typewriter and a poetic mind to retire to when the emotional strain of being mentally unemployed becomes too much...