Word: mistressing
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...young African republic where a Negro Cabinet minister falls in love with a white woman. Both black and white communities rise up against the couple and take a terrible vengeance. The minister's black colleagues cynically arrange his assassination, and then literally eat his brains. His mistress is successively brutalized by a black mob and berated by the white colony. Her estranged husband, who tries to protect her, is beaten up by his white associates. And at book's end, two howling hordes of savages, one black and one white, converge and expel husband and wife from...
...adolescence had an inventor, it was Rousseau, who was cynical about man in civilization: "At ten he is led by cakes, at twenty by a mistress, at thirty by amusements, at forty by ambition, and at fifty by avarice. When does he make wisdom his sole pursuit?" Rousseau saw wisdom in nature. Against the traditional Christian notion that children, scarred at birth by original sin, must be civilized through education, he felt that they were really innocent and that they are best educated through the emotions. In Emile, in 1762, he advised: "Keep your child's mind idle...
...proposes, but his concerned young mistress wants to meet the wife and see if divorce will agree with her. Grudgingly, Bacall agrees to the role and the ruse. Nelson butters the lie by telling his bride-to-be that his wife has a boy friend whom she wishes to marry. This makes Vaccaro extravagantly solicitous: she must meet Bacall's supposed lover and see if he is a good sort. By the time the fictional couples are locked on a discotheque floor in the steely bonds of subterfuge, Cactus Flower is a prickly web of deceit. Inevitably, Bacall kicks...
...bandleaders, society can be a cruel mistress. At debutante parties they receive compliments but not calling cards, at charity balls they take their breaks with their players instead of their patrons, and at cocktail parties they are not to be seen at all. Even hair dressers fare better - no doubt because they know more secrets. But with Band leader Peter Duchin, 28-year-old son of famed Piano Stylist Eddy Duchin, life is considerably sweeter...
...challenge to his honor by playing around a bit himself. The gamest girl he knows is a man-eating blonde TV commentator (Honor Blackman) who lives by a rule that might well raise obstacles for Joe: "Only one thing I ask from you-be honest." Joe follows his mistress to Lon don to earn success on his own merit, but every thread of his being leads straight back home to Brown & Hether-sett's woolens...