Word: misogynistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mary Cassatt's closest male friend was also her master, Edgar Degas. If she never equaled that dour misogynist as an artist, she came close enough to earn a place as the best woman painter America has produced. A rich, aristocratic Pennsylvanian, she spent almost all her adult life laboring at her profession in Paris. Though she hobnobbed with the impressionists, the tall spinster never painted a landscape. People offered more of a challenge, she felt. Cassatt was an austere sort alto gether; she once turned John Singer Sargent from her door because he had done such a "dreadful...
Incidentally, Ronnie Knox, during the war, was the victim of one of life's most amusing little ironies. He had always been a kindly misogynist, and was genuinely distressed by the close presence of females. However, the manor house where he had retired to translate the Bible was, as a wartime emergency, inundated with teen-age students from a London convent, and Ronnie was forced to spend most of his war listening to the confessions of hundreds of female adolescents. Being a great and humble priest, he undoubtedly bore this cross eagerly and brilliantly...
...Eustis, a sternly God-fearing farmer of middle age, had confessed the murder of Beulah Ross, the sexy teenager who ran away with him for an illicit two-week idyll. But when Parker Nowell took Farmer Eustis' case, that changed matters a bit. Lawyer Nowell was a sour misogynist but he was also a brilliant courtroom tactician who "never took a case unless it was hopeless, and it was a long way from hopeless" when...
...Grain of Dust. Though the father of five daughters, Perkins became a mild misogynist in his dealings with fussy "lady writers" and used to complain wryly of their demands. One of them, whose anonymity he carefully preserved, telephoned him once to say that her cat John Keats was dying and could Perkins get a veterinarian? Another lady author of a book on. Swedish massage horrified him by asking him "just to feel of the muscles of my abdomen...
...Dean's Office which excludes Radcliffe girls from a club by requiring it to have 100 percent Harvard membership. This philosophy fails to consider either the statistical inferiority of Radcliffe, or the obvious success of such virtually spliced groups as the orchestras. It is a backward-looking, over-pessimistic, misogynist, and utterly pernicious doctrine...