Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First on my list is R.A. d'Hulst's four volume edition of Jordaen's Drawings. My second Christmas book is Archibald MacLeish's The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn printed by Harvard Press. Also, Nicholson and Troutman's Letters of Virginia Woolf--I expect to find them under my tree Christmas morning...
...Center for Family Learning in New Rochelle, N.Y., finds that many fathers suffer heart attacks shortly after a grown son or daughter leaves home. His hypothesis: the child may have functioned as a buffer for parental conflict. Psychologist Dina Fleischer of Richmond's Medical College of Virginia reports on the family of a man who had a heart transplant in 1968: when the patient was near death, the family functioned well; when he recovered, the family unraveled; whenever he relapsed, the family functioned well again...
Engaged. Robert J. Dole, 52, witty Republican Senator from Kansas and onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee; and Mary Elizabeth Hanford, 38, sole woman member of the Federal Trade Commission. Hanford's striking good looks and Harvard law degree once prompted White House Consumer Affairs Adviser Virginia Knauer to describe her as an example of deceptive packaging. Dole, who narrowly won re-election in 1974, convinced voters that he had been unfairly besmirched by Watergate: he appeared in TV ads with mud on his face...
...seemed frozen and I felt ugly," recalls Mrs. Virginia Carmody, 50. At her first class, she says, "my arm hurt so badly that I yelled when someone touched it." The exercises, however, quickly overcame her problems. "After two weeks I had no pain," says Mrs. Carmody. After five months, she had mastered ballet's fifth position, in which the arms arch over the head. The accomplishment is impressive. Many would-be dancers who have not had mastectomies find the fifth position formidable...
Although not vengeful, Rose: My Life in Service has the unmistakable markings of an exercise in British upmanship. A Yorkshire girl is equal-if not superior-to the daughter of a Virginia horse trader...