Word: spinsterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Paula Wolf, 64, penniless spinster sister of Adolf Hitler, of whom she once said, "I would have preferred it a thousand times over if he had remained an architect''; of a heart attack while ill with cancer; in Berchtesgaden, Germany...
...Edge of Day (a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, and a good one) will never be called an important book, but it deals with important things-the changing seasons, the magical qualities of visiting uncles and spinster neighbors, the insatiable appetite boys have for berries picked in the noonday heat. Author Lee knows that his book has an almost archaic aspect. Not until the end do autos appear in the valley, and one uncle takes on the stature of a hero by becoming a bus driver. The language is always charming and often poetic, but what is most remarkable...
...long time after India got its freedom, Socialist Jawaharlal Nehru regarded foreign investors with the narrow-eyed suspicion of a spinster convinced that friendly attentions from any man probably conceal evil designs. So U.S. investors passed India by. After all, there were plenty of other places for them to invest their money-places where markets were more developed and officialdom far less mistrustful. General Motors even closed down its automotive assembly plant in Bombay...
...politicians, Widow Smith (after her husband's death in 1940, she won his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives) and Spinster Cormier have much in common. In a state that was long a fortress of rock-ribbed conservatism, both have earned reputations as "liberals," have won broad labor support. Both prefer to ring bells and shake hands on street corners than to get up on the stump. Both are fiercely independent; e.g., Senator Smith denounced Joe McCarthy in his heyday, later bucked the Administration by voting against the confirmation of Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, last time ran with...
Author Flannery O'Connor is a retiring, bookish spinster who dabbles in the variants of sin and salvation like some self-tutored backwoods theologian. She is an earnest Roman Catholic who raises geese and peacocks on the family farm near Milledgeville, Ga., which she rarely leaves; she suffers from lupus (a tuberculous disease of the skin and mucous membranes) that forces her to spend part of her life on crutches. Despite such relative immobility, Author O'Connor manages to visit remote and dreadful places of the human spirit. In Wise Blood (TIME, June 9 1952) and A Good...