Word: spinsterism
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...though rising to a challenge, the rest of the week's dramatic shows were far above average. Maurice Evans and Hallmark combined to produce a first-rate version of Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green. Eva Le Gallienne was crisply dictatorial as the do-gooding English spinster, while John Kerr smoldered like a burning coal as the boy brought from the bowels of a Welsh mine to the stately quadrangles of Oxford...
...more serious, but less striking than Ratte's and Cumming's sketches, is Mary Meade Harnett's portrayal of the plight of a maiden lady who feels that her life has been sacrificed to the whims of her relatives. Mis Harnett makes her story especially complex by introducing another spinster's sickly cousin. Be delineating the character and thoughts of first one and then the other (rather than intermingling them) she expresses the barrier which has arisen between them. But while this separate characterization adds to the feeling of the hopelessness of their relationship, it still jars the reader when...
...visit to the Duke University School of Medicine was that science, when it comes to migraine, is better armed with pain-killers than with cures. NBC's Medic is ordinarily more interested in shock values than in therapy, and last week showed a hysterical mother accusing her spinster sister of the willful murder of a three-month-old infant. After an endless autopsy, the coroner was able to prove that death had been caused by a bronchial infection. Unresolved in the story: what caused the infection and why there was no prior evidence of it. The best segment...
...Publisher Rene Julliard saw the first verses in Minou's childish scrawl, he thought he had found a literary prodigy even greater than his last discovery. Teenager Franchise Sagan. whose short, sexy Bonjour Tristesse is an international bestseller. He brought Minou from Brittany, along with 49-year-old Spinster Claude Drouet. who had adopted the child at age of two. Then he brought out a slim limited edition containing ten poems and ten poesy-struck lett&rs. Sample: I picked...
...captain and local poacher (Edmund Gwenn), who has just sent three rounds after a rabbit, finds Harry lying there with a little round blood spot on his forehead. "Oh, my!" he exclaims, for it is not hunting season. He is about to dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry's distant manner, inquires politely, "What seems to be the trouble?" The captain explains, and the lady is most understanding. Their eyes meet. She blushes and offers him tea and a sympathetic muffin-after work...