Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrator of the migrant labor system which brutally separates black families. He was the only foreigner ever top sit on the boards of the Witwatersrand Native Labor Association and the Native Recruiting Agency, two government agencies which recruit cheap African labor to work in the mines (see Ruth First, The South African Connection...
...Landers, with her wonderfully brisk "listen-cookie" style, has just come forth with a 1,212-page The Ann Landers Encyclopedia A to Z (abdominal muscles to zoonoses), which gets down to all sorts of nitty-gritty not only about social rituals ("Prince Philip, may I present my laundress Ruth Smith") but also about bedwetting, inverted nipples and nose jobs. Charlotte Ford, Henry II's daughter, has a "book of modern manners" due out in the spring. Probably the best guide to manners in 1978 is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, a Guide to Contemporary Living, Revised & Expanded...
...cuckolded. The real betrayal of the title seems to be the violation of the ritual of male bonding. Jerry worries very little about what he is doing to Judith, but he feels guilty as hell about what he is doing to Robert. In a Pinter play, woman, whether Ruth in The Homecoming or Stella in The Collection, is the catalyst of male discord...
Goaded by Carson's wife Ruth (Diana Rigg), the two men do a certain amount of preachy credo-strutting. Night and Day is much concerned with the van ities and responsibilities of journalists and a free press. Ruth has the tart last word...
...Ruth has done a one-night stand with Wagner in a London hotel and develops a fierce unrequited crush on Milne. She is, it seems, a romantic manquée who cannot recoup in sex what she has lost in love. While Rigg delivers all of Ruth's crisp-edged lines with hilarious asperity the feminine vulnerability of the role eludes her until she hears that Milne ha been machine-gunned to death. Then she rages in grief, waving a newspaper and asking what page in it was worth that price...