Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brian Moore has told an old-maid joke, if it is realized that the point of the spinster joke is human cruelty-and that none sees the point more clearly than the spinster. There are many conspirators against the old maid. The first is Belfast, "drab facades of the buildings proclaiming the virtues of trade, hard dealing and Presbyterian righteousness," with "the dour Ulster burghers walking proudly among these monuments to their mediocrity...
...Washington's American Newspaper Women's Club, the Democrats' most eligible spinster, Mary Margaret Truman, 32, got tea and congratulations from her old capital cronies over the serialized publication of her memoirs, Souvenir. A newshen asked whether Margaret and her memoir-penning father had exchanged views on each other's works. Said Margaret: "He does his writing. I do mine." Meanwhile, two Hollywood studios were wooing Margaret with propositions to play herself in film versions of her short young life and high old times...
...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...