Word: spinsterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, Anna Christina Olson, and until her death last week of a heart attack at the age of 74, very few people had ever seen her in person, although millions know her from Wyeth's work. A reclusive spinster who lived in a weatherbeaten grey homestead in Cushing, Me., up the road a piece from the house in which Wyeth and his family have summered for many years, Christina Olson was severely crippled by polio in childhood. Nonetheless, she supported herself for most of her life as a seamstress, earned a local reputation as a fine cook...
Miss Brodie is a teacher of iron whim and blowtorch fervor. She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto are forever making her break out of the prim parochialism of a stuffy 1930s Scottish finishing school for girls. Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play...
...Author-Composer Paul Bowles). In her Collected Works, the most prominent entry is Two Serious Ladies, which was first published in 1943 and highly praised before fading from public attention. It is a deceptively simple novel of two women trying to change their way of life. One, a sheltered spinster, seeks salvation by becoming a prostitute and does manage to achieve a heightened sense of herself. The other woman sets off to find sin and excitement and discovers in stead spiritual narcosis and boredom. Most Bowles characters seem to suffer from a total lack of motivation; they must be seen...
AMONG THE PATHS TO EDEN (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). A TV adaptation of Truman Capote's lonely-hearts story about two people who meet in a cemetery - a widower (Martin Balsam) paying his respects to his late wife and a spinster (Maureen Stapleton) who has heard that a graveyard is a good place to look for a husband...
...Spinster's Delight. By comparison with Los Angeles' record, the number of such placements across the U.S. is still small: there has been only one in Bridgeport, Conn., one in San Francisco, one in Washington, D.C., four in Minneapolis. New York City has none yet, but expects to place its first one by Christmas. One reason that so few singles have been tapped is that in screening unmarried applicants, agencies are especially cautious, weeding out anybody they suspect of wanting the child just as a cure for loneliness. In addition to the usual demands of reasonable income, steady...