Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked ill-at-ease signing a copy of Betrayal in the Harvard Bookstore Cafe. He had eluded the crowds during his wife's appearance in Boston, until he was spotted in a corner. Asked about her, he replied, "I have nothing to say. I'm here escorting her as protector." Not that a woman who combines femininity and feminism needs a protector, but Fraser seems pleased nonetheless...
...many women, says Klein, a son means a sense of completeness. Said one subject: "It's as if, through him, I've found the missing half of myself." Fathers do not identify as strongly with daughters, seeing their role more as protector. The feeling of creating a lost half may account for the extraordinarily close relationship between some mothers and sons, but it is not without dangers. As the boy matures and is shaped by the woman's sensibilities, he may emerge as his mother's perfect man, her emotional and intellectual mate. Says Klein...
While examining the period for her earlier books, Cromwell: The Lord Protector and Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration, Lady Antonia must have amassed an exhaustive file under some such heading as "17th century women: the great exceptions." She sets it all out stylishly here in a sprawling documentary. The index lists the names of more than 550 women, most of whom, in one way or another, refused to play the game...
...does about how those issues-and all others-threaten his boss. For Mike Deaver, at 46, has essentially one aim in life, and that is serving Ronald Reagan. For 18 years, after he stopped selling IBM supplies in Bakersfield, Calif, and got into politics, Deaver has been confidant, protector, image polisher and keeper of state and family secrets. Now he knows Ronald Reagan better than any other man alive...
Merging the characters of the manservant and the King's messenger converts the monarch from a protector to a tyrant who will let his citizens suffer to increase their awe and dependence. The change derives from a genuine insight: as Pintilie notes in the program, the play is full of instances of people being spied upon, or believing that they are. Perhaps it takes an East European, schooled in the ways of the surveillance state, to grasp the political implications of that conventional element of farce. But for spectators in the American Midwest, the climactic revelation is perceptibly, persuasively...