Word: spinsterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Family planning finally got a friend in Sripati Chandrasekhar, 48, a world-famed demographer who became the new Minister of State for Health. He replaces Sushila Nayar, a cheerful but backward-looking spinster who had never shown any enthusiasm for birth control programs and, in fact, sometimes did not even bother to spend her department's allocated budget. Chandrasekhar, who plans to emphasize the use of the loop contraceptive for women, will enforce an all-out program to reduce India's birth rate. -As for food, the new minister was certain to bring a sense of urgency...
...Bernard, all is fair and funny; but there are too many absurd inside bits that become outsize bites, eating away at the film's essential innocence. Michael Dunn as a dwarf actor, Michael O'Sullivan as a one-legged albino hypnotherapist, and Julie Harris as a spinster with a girl-hating rooster stagger through scenes that suffer from fallen archness; and the names of almost everyone-I. H. Chanticleer, Miss Thing, Barbara Darling, a dog named Dog-only force the farce...
...wages and prices-through "guideposts" in the U.S., the "freeze" in Britain-in order to protect the corporate-planned economy from inflation. Galbraith found it amusing that such control, though a reality, is nonetheless still approached "with great caution and circumspection, somewhat in the manner of a Victorian spinster viewing an erotic statue...
...flops (the Edsel) and galloping successes (the Mustang). What is more, any steel, aluminum or copper-industry executive who tried to raise prices this year-and got a jangling phone call from the White House for his trouble-knows that the tale about the government acting like a Victorian spinster is as tall...
Truman Capote narrates his adaptation of A Christmas Memory, an autobiographical tale of a lonely old woman and a small boy who stand together against the sensible world of grownups, which Capote wrote for Mademoiselle in 1956. With Geraldine Page as a distant spinster cousin and Donnie Melvin as "Buddy...