Word: theresa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theresa Dunn, Rossner's Quinn-character, had been uncomfortable with herself, both physically and personally since age four when polio left her spine curved. Though the spine was straightened somewhat by an operation and a year in the hospital left her with only the slightest limp, Theresa always retained a sense of her illness as something shameful. Her parents treated her differently than their other children, both pitying her and feeling guilty for not being able to prevent her illness. Theresa felt as though her mother was constantly reproaching her for not being so pretty and athletic as her younger...
Rossner is at her best when dealing with Theresa's estrangement from her family as a result of her illness. In Theresa's withdrawal from her family, her only connection with people aside from her rigidly structured parochial school, Rossner lays the groundwork for Theresa's passivity toward all the men in her life. Her reaction to the constant unspoken reproach, the pity, is to bury her anxiety over her deformity as deeply inside her as possible. But it preoccupies her constantly...
...career-consciousness in women, many of the colleges are shaking up their traditionally liberal arts-oriented curriculums. At Mills College in Oakland, Calif., students can sign up for a special program that trains them for managerial positions in business or public service jobs. The College of St. Theresa in Winona, Minn., offers this fall a new major in law enforcement. Students will study penology as well as criminal law and the courts. At Hood College in Frederick, Md., the home economics department now offers consumer-affairs courses, and science majors can assist in projects at a nearby Army medical research...
...THERESA A. WATSON
...locker room of a Catholic boys' school in the Andersonstown section of Belfast. She chose the locker room not as a secret meeting place safe amidst the bombs and bullets of the Troubles, but because it happened to be where she and her children lived at the time. Theresa McGinnis slept on a canvas camping cot beside the entrance to the showers and her children slept on the benches between lockers, abandoning them for the floor after falling off a few times. She had been burned out of her house in a mixed Catholic-Protestant area by members...