Word: spinster
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...muted, tastefully done sets of From These Roots could not disguise the detergent flavor. But, with its still faintly unrealistic air, color does enliven the pseudo-realism of daytime drama, and did so for the fourth Purex Special for Women, which soap-operatically explored the fate of the modern spinster. Color also lent visual interest to such ordinary dry items as News of the Day, which included the first fully tinted tour of President Kennedy's redecorated office...
...IDOLS, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. What happens when a beautiful and amoral French pianist with a taste for men sets her sights on a God-filled, Bible-thundering minister in a dull provincial town. In this one, New Zealand's Sylvia Ashton-Warner triumphantly proves that her remarkable Spinster last year was no happenstance...
Incense to Idols, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Proving that the power and insight of her first novel, Spinster, sprang from an exceptional talent rather than from mere autobiographical circumstance, the New Zealand schoolteacher dazzlingly describes an amoral and shatteringly beautiful pianist for whom men-except for an unbending, God-obsessed minister -queue up to destroy themselves...
...went out late one night and ran into a stranded burlesque girl, hungry and shivering in the winter streets. He fed her, brought her back to his rented room. and let her sleep in his bed while he slept on the floor. When his landladies, two spinster sisters, found out about it, Pound was fired. This episode triggered his departure for London via Venice...
Incense to Idols, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. In this impressive second novel by the author of Spinster, an amoral and witchingly lovely woman spins a treacherous human web, in which men snared by beauty must ultimately confront God, death and salvation...