Word: spinster
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...Olga, in her late twenties, is the eldest, and she opens and closes the play. Marian Seldes has beautifully caught the quiet suffering of this reluctant schoolteacher, subject to headaches, who is finally forced into still more responsibility as a headmistress. She has the true manner--of a proper spinster schoolmarm, and her sense of duty is reflected in her ramrod-straight carriage...
Arkansas celebrates its 150th anniversary as a U.S. territory this year, and Lily Peter, a wealthy, plantation-owning spinster, decided that a musical tribute would be just the thing to mark the occasion. Trouble is, she conceded, "we are as far removed from the great world of music as if we lived on the rings of Saturn." So Miss Peter, 73, persuaded Composer Norman Dello Joio to write a special work for the sesquicentennial, then hired Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra to come to Little Rock to play it. She mortgaged a small portion of her land to foot...
...last night's masked horrors looked and behaved like a bunch of kids out for trick-and-treat. Patricia Smith's slattern recalled a hoarse and unhappy spinster. And like the other actors, Bacchus (Michael Cline) relied on pronouncing lines in a pseudo-theatrical voice...
Such is the pedagogy in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. A burring, feline spinster, Miss Brodie (Maggie Smith) lives off the baby fat of the land-Edinburgh, 1932. In a provincial girls' public school, she inscribes her prejudices on scores of blank pupils. Her taste becomes their only touchstone, her politics their only truth. "I am in the business," she loftily announces, "of putting old heads on young bodies...
...years Radcliffe has been a spinster--now she has finally gotten up enough nerve to ask the boy next door to tie the knot...