Word: spinsterism
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Hunter & Hunted. Daughter Grace is a cowed, bloodless spinster who lavishes her love on brother Arthur, a Christlike embodiment of human goodness, an unambitious whittler of 40 who won't shoot a gun. Riding roughshod over the entire family is another son, Curt, a hard-bodied, dead-shot, ambitious, bully who loves hunting and the kill. On the morning the story opens, he is consumed by two desires: to track down the destructive mountain lion at large among the Bridges cattle; to seduce Gwen, the fiancee of brother Harold...
...main course: Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend, with Nora Kaye, the big-eyed little ballerina who has made Fall River one of Ballet Theatre's signatures as well as one of her own. She spun through the story of the gentle, murderous New England spinster ("Lizzie Borden took an ax . . .") like something out of a Freudian nightmare, and her audience loved...
...five volumes of poems and a rather good novel, In the Days of Thy Youth, a story of a deep attachment between twins. Yet Mary Miller had never produced a sound critical success, had never come close to authoring a bestseller. Was she, after all, just another New England spinster with literary inclinations...
...bridge is in danger of falling, she thinks, because one of its chief supports, the teacher, is badly undermined. "People think of a teacher as a devoted, cultured spinster who expects nothing in return . . . or some unmarried, retiring don who needs only enough to buy his port. Why, they pay their secretaries more than my top teachers...
Died. Anna Jarvis, 84, originator of Mother's Day; in West Chester, Pa. In 1914 Spinster Jarvis finally lobbied Congress and President Wilson into designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, spent the rest of her life vainly scrapping with florists, candy makers and greeting-card companies to keep them from commercializing...