Word: spinsterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...High-Kaflutin1." The snarling started last January when the Democratic Policy Committee met to name its candidate to oppose Republican Senator Hugh Scott. Up to the last minute, the odds-on favorite was "Gen" Blatt, a 50-year-old spinster who has devoted much of her life to the party. A onetime protegee of former Governor David Lawrence, she is now the darling of the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh A.D.A. chapters, enjoyed solid support from liberal Democratic Senator Joe Clark...
...English of the Lorca "comedies." Two of the five were written by Lorca when he was in his teens for presentation in the puppet theater that he had built for the entertainment of neighborhood children. Of the others, only one is a genuinely major work, Dona Rosita, the Spinster, which Lorca wrote two years before his death...
...Neal), an American studying law in Dublin, is life-prone and dead beat. His head is more often in his cups than his books. He is one of Nature's seductive heels, and in the most brilliant scene in the play, he seduces a mid-thirtyish spinster whose tempestuous flesh mocks her primly parochial morality...
Died. Margaret Alice Murray, 100, Egyptologist and demonologist, a wispy spinster (4 ft. 6 in.) who in 1904 at Abydos on the Nile was the first woman archaeologist to conduct her own "digs," went tenting with Bedouins at 70, finally "retired" to lecture on sorcery in England, where she held listeners spellbound as she expounded her thesis that the Inquisitors were absolutely right, Joan of Arc was indeed a witch; in Welwyn, Hertfordshire...
Novelist-Screenwriter Peter Viertel, who was once Ava's constant companion in Paris and Mexico during the filming of The Sun Also Rises some years ago, is also in Puerto Vallarta, since he is now the husband of Deborah Kerr, who is playing a Nantucket spinster in the film. Viertel is understandably wary of Ava, but he is also a little skittish with Director John Huston. He worked on the screenplay of Huston's African Queen and followed up with a novel called White Hunter, Black Heart, which was a thinly disguised, malicious portrait of Huston...