Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mrs. O'Clair seem unperturbed by the incident as they toast one of their feline friends...
Daddy is a well-to-do, eternally busy Kansas City attorney, who showers his wife with money as well as silence. Mrs. Bridge fills her days with abortive attempts to paint, to learn Spanish, to keep a scrapbook, to read. But her grasshopper attention is best held by gossipy lunches and club meetings. Novelist Connell seems to say that the very fatness of Midwestern life makes for fatheadedness in its citizens...
...tell the life story of gentle Mrs. Bridge ("Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it"), he uses a mannered but often effective device of 117 very short chapters, each concerned with a single episode, often a single glancing thought or aspiration. The reader, in effect, leafs through a verbal photograph album, ranging from an eleven-line snapshot of Mrs. Bridge finding her small son staring meditatively at the dressmaker's dummy of her figure (thereafter, she hides it in the attic) to a seven-page description of a country-club dinner that...
...appeared in The Anatomy Lesson (TIME, May 27, 1957), but added incident does not necessarily bring greater understanding. When catastrophe breaks into his heroine's hothouse existence, the author flinches nearly as much as she: the event is seen from the outside, and the reader cannot know if Mrs. Bridge feels any more deeply than the cliches she utters. He is a gentler observer than Philip Wylie, but Connell's conclusions about U.S. womanhood may not be too different. He has one of his suburban matrons passionately ask another: "Have you ever felt like those people...
...Metropolitan District Commission will hold a public hearing Thursday at 3 p.m. for "everyone concerned" to express his opinion about plans for the new Metropolitan Boston Arts Center, Mrs. John C. Vosoff, MEBAC secretary, disclosed last night...