Word: spinsterism
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Schumann: Carnaval (Artur Rubinstein; RCA Victor). Some of Schumann sounds like the fourth draft of a suicide note from a heartsick spinster. But here is an unpremeditated celebration of life, in which Rubinstein's firm hand keeps Schumann's Gemütlichkeit infectious rather than cloying...
...Ethiopia, two California schoolteachers-Beulah Bartlett, 65, and Blythe Monroe, 66-moved in on an abandoned schoolhouse, whitewashed it themselves, turned it into an excellent training school for native teachers. The spinster pair earned a special audience from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, and Beulah said after the meeting, "Oh, we think he's just the sweetest little man in the world." Beyond Beulah and Blythe, the Peace Corps' 276 schoolteachers in Ethiopia have caused a remarkable change. Peace Corps teachers constitute half the faculty of every high school outside Addis Ababa. Since they bolstered Ethiopia...
...Side. Summer and Smoke put her into something of a mold, and people anxious to keep her there liked to say that she was a splendid weeping willow but not much else. No one said that any more after they saw her in Separate Tables, playing both a repressed spinster and a glamorous high-fashion model. In Sweet Bird of Youth, she was a supremely fading beauty, the sharded Hollywood sexpot with her heart on her thigh. Her manner and expression are so mobile, in fact, that it is possible to see four pictures of her in four different roles...
...major problem for American women will disappear in the foreseeable future." Divorced people contemplating remarriage tend more and more to consult experts in order to avoid possible repetition of a neurotic pattern in the choice of a mate, and single women are breaking away from rationalizations of their spinster-hood-obligation to parents, waiting for "Mr. Right"-to obtain psychiatric help while still young enough for prospects of marriage...
From the outside, the small whitewashed house, surrounded by tiny birch and fir trees, looks as if it might belong to a mousy little spinster who would never do anything that would cause talk among the neighbors. But the house on the outskirts of Brussels belongs to Paul Delvaux, a grey-maned, sad-faced man of 65 who, next to René Magritte, is Belgium's top surrealist and can sometimes be seen standing in his studio wearing blue jeans and sandals, slowly filling a huge canvas with vacant-eyed female nudes. Against one wall stands...