Word: menfolk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some young women seem to believe that female self-assertion was invented around 1960. But in bygone times, plenty of housebound wives and mothers found ways to control their destinies, often while cannily seeming to submit to the menfolk. That is what happens with mounting clarity and power in Precious Sons, a rousing, historically apt and splendidly played family comedy that opened on Broadway last week...
...every expectant mother, sends him off to work with the unchallengeable claim: "You can't be where I am, anyway." And sure enough, when he takes her to the maternity ward, a nurse insists that the Ricardos kiss goodbye in the lobby. No husband is allowed upstairs because menfolk have no business meddling in childbirth...
...eldest sister, Esther Crampton (Maureen O'Sullivan), lives down the road with David (Gary Merrill), her elitist curmudgeon of a husband, who openly reviles her siblings and their menfolk as "morons." Naturally, each sister cuts through the Gordian knot of close relations only to find it intact - even if more loosely binding. However, Homer amusingly severs his umbilical cord...