Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic senatorial candidates in the South were able to lose even without Carter's help. Former Virginia Attorney General Andrew Miller never invited Carter in, though the President was willing. He lost by a slim margin to former Navy Secretary John Warner, thus casting Elizabeth Taylor in yet another role, Senate wife. In Mississippi, Cochran became the first Republican Senator in almost a century, partly because the black vote was split Democrat Maurice Dantin and independent Black Civil Rights Leader Charles Evers...
...lower in the South, there were also fewer manifestations of the tax-cut issue. In fact there were few issues at all: attention seemed to focus on such trivial things as, in Texas, a spurned handshake (Senator Tower's public rebuff to Democrat Robert Krueger) and, in Virginia, a famous wife...
...Virginia Shapard, a wealthy Democrat, lost her race for Congress in Georgia when Republican Opponent Newt Gingrich, a former college professor, accused her of condoning welfare cheating and being out of touch with average voters. Said one newspaper: "If elected, she will be apparently leaving her four young children at home to be reared by the servants...
...VIRGINIA WOOLF once described woman as "the most discussed animal in the universe." A popular subject in anything from sonnets to surgery, she has been serenaded, dissected, romanticized and analyzed by generations of literati, medical men, scientists and students. If these men fixed their eyes intently on the figure of woman, however, the historian remained somewhat more aloof. Usually, in his considered judgement, women were essentially unimportant to his field ('the study of man'), and he dealt with them incidentally...
...cautions that his prestige ratings may be unfair to women's colleges, since the Social Register omits data on college for many matrons. The most prestigious ten, according to Hawes, are fairly predictable: Harvard (4,039 listings); Yale (3,755); Princeton (3,344); Pennsylvania (1,373); Virginia (755); Williams (748); the Berkeley campus of the University of California (560); Stanford (521); Dartmouth (489); Cornell (470). Hawes' own alma mater, Columbia, ranks eleventh (with...