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...have not a clue what being a real woman in the '90s means. (And yet, like Boyle, Mayo seems to suggest that he does know.) Only two of our winners "have actually done something new since the Eisenhower administration," says Mayo. The four highlighted women--"a columnist, a future saint, a dead white woman, and group of women who revere a dead white cause"--represent nothing but the "humble, selfless, obedient woman." Mayo seems to prefer the woman whom feminists these days dress up in the flashier attire of pride, control and power...
...player, the better," explained Leland's chairman, Joshua Evans. "Lots of use is desirable. Our great jerseys have never been cleaned and are all sweaty and dirty." Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers shirt from 1949 was carried down the ballroom aisle hung on a gold stanchion, like some saint's relic, and spike marks and bloodstains could be seen on the right sleeve. Robinson's widow Rachel, who consigned the jersey, watched from the front row as it sold...
Peninsula, Harvard's bastion of Truth, Justice and Femininity has just named this season's Women of the Year. And what women they are--a conservative columnist, a future saint, a dead white woman and a whole group of women who revere a dead white cause...
What would descend from the chilly stratosphere was not jolly Saint Nick (who doesn't visit our house anyway), but a vision of a Thanksgiving lunar eclipse the likes of which had not been witnessed so clearly by North American inhabitants for nearly 11 years...
Others convey all the enchanting density of Garcia Marquez's fiction at its best. In The Saint, a man from the Colombian Andes takes the miraculously preserved body of his daughter, dead at age seven and exhumed 11 years later to make way for a dam, to Rome to seek her canonization by the church. When the story ends, 22 years later, he is still waiting, another outsider absorbed into the rhythms of the Eternal City...