Word: tactlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shirley is kin to a long literary line of unworldly New World girls, starting with Daisy Miller, who have pitted their innocence against Old World ambiguities of Europe and pluckily gone under. In her own words, Shirley is "warm, generous, brave even." She is also sloppy, tactless, catty, softhearted, scatterbrained, a compulsive quoter out of context and snooper in her husband's desk drawers, gigantically absentminded, passably promiscuous, desperately lonely, guilt-ridden, polyglot, and sympathetically drawn to other people's troubles. She does the wrong thing every chance she gets, and St. Joseph (her code word for fate...