Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though popularly known as the goddess of the hunt, Artemis was worshiped at Vravron as a protector of maternity. From a still legible book of offerings, Papadimitriou and his team confirmed that pregnant women left rings at the temple to secure protection, and that those who died in pregnancy or childbirth bequeathed to the goddess their most precious possessions...
Abandoned, the girl goes looking for love. The first thing she finds is trouble: a Negro sailor (Paul Danquah) who loves her and leaves her-pregnant. The second thing she finds is a friend: a shy young homosexual (Murray Melvin), who needs to give what she needs to receive: mother love. He moves into her flat and briskly "takes' her in 'and." Runs her up some baby clothes, starts her eating properly for two, goes to the clinic for a stack of diapers and a doll to practice on. But all too soon the idyl ends...
...young Empress Farah was the week's most ogled oligarch. The other reigning monarchs on hand: Norway's King Olav V, Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, and King Baudouin of the Belgians, who arrived a day late in order to spare Queen Fabiola, who is reportedly pregnant, the full rigors of a royal wingding...
...flowers and vegetables." Thingness, as used by Poet John Ciardi, "the sober Saul of modern letters," apparently connotes some ineffable quality of poetic words when uttered by a poet. When Novelist J. D. Salinger's Franny cries her eyes out in a ladies' room (Is she pregnant, hearing God, or what?), she observes the room's suchness-but at least Salinger can quote precedent, for the word is common in Buddhist philosophy as tathata, the equivalent of thusness...
Charlie's greatest fame in recent years has been his steady siring of children. He has seven by his 36-year-old wife of 18 years*-and she is pregnant again. Oona believes in natural childbirth, a technique she learned with the last baby. Enthusiastically, she declares that all their future children will be delivered by natural childbirth, too. Oona is Charlie's fourth wife, but the first who could manage...