Word: prim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full time to the pursuit of his quasars. Despite the challenges of his job, though, he takes pains never to miss dinner at home. "It is," says Corrie Schmidt, "the only time he really has with the children." At bedtime, Anne, 5, Maryke, 7, and Elizabeth, 9, all stand prim and proper in line, awaiting their ritual kus (Dutch for kiss) from Daddy...
...Friedan, who can never forget she is a woman, is awed by women who can. She just returned from India, where she followed Prim Minister Indira Gandhi for four weeks. "No one thinks it's remarkable that she is Prime Minister," Mrs. Friedan says, pulling at an earing. "No is raising a furor. Finance Minister Desai never attacked her because of her sex, primarily because anti-women tactics wouldn't have worked. Their criticism of her are of her political abilities." Mrs. Friedan paused and smiled. "It was so grand watching her move about with her ministers. She is Prime...
Stones That Draw. Cassatt never married, but she lived a full family life until her death in 1926. Her parents, sisters, nephews and nieces were always visiting her villa on the Riviera, her Paris flat or chateau near Beauvais. Even in her old age, she had a prim, acerbic wit: she found Monet too unintelligent, criticized Renoir's lusty art as too "animal," scorned the generation of the cubists as "cafe loafers...
...that he was a onetime drunk, taking a bottle to bed with him every night and finishing it before morning. His wife seemed a drab mediocrity, but she had cured her husband of drink. Out of this, Maugham contrived a superb story (Before the Party), which begins in a prim country dwelling, turns into a confession by the fat widow that she had slashed her backsliding husband to death with a parang one hot afternoon in Borneo. After the confession, they all go to the vicar's garden party...
...situation gags by Adapter-Director Abe Burrows, garnished with appealing humanity, and served with unerring timing by a well-chosen cast. Lauren Bacall plays a dentist's nurse who looks "like a big white Band-Aid," speaks with an antiseptic voice that would intimidate gangrene, and lives a prim life with mother. The dentist (Barry Nelson) holds a master's degree in bachelorhood, and while he appreciates spinsterish efficiency in the office, he turns for amour to a Greenwich Village post-adolescent (Brenda Vaccaro). This child wants to be a bride, but the dentist has lied...