Word: washerwomen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clubs (see below), the police chased women away, and rounded up resisters by the truckload. In one day alone last week, 128 women were found guilty of unlawful demonstration, fined $9 apiece (two weeks' wages) with the alternative of one month in jail. Cried one: "We are all washerwomen. Please give us time to pay our fines." Next day 248 more went on trial. But in spite of the government's efforts, the black women's campaign against carrying the hated pass seems only to be beginning. Ex-Chief Albert Luthuli, President General of the African National...
...Penman spokesman for her piece, and although his antithetical brother Shaun is absent as an explicit character, he does appear in his incarnations of Ondt and Jaunty Jan during the H. C. Earwicker dream sequences. The theme of the river-mother, Anna Livia, is powerfully revealed in the washerwomen episode and successfully picked up and completed in the final scene, to round out the major cycle of the book...
...assembled some 300 objects from ivory elephants to embroidered shawls, and a full gallery of 172 contemporary paintings. In subject, the canvases range from old Hindu rituals to present-day Indian life, but in style they are uniformly modern. The artists show lithe water carriers posed like ballerinas, gay washerwomen and prancing bullocks, frenzied harvest dancers, impressionist landscapes, expressionistic fantasies and, here & there, even a nude. The net result is a bit as if India's artists had listened carefully to lectures from Picasso, Matisse & Co., then gone to work on Eastern subjects with Western ideas. Winter Park...
When we returned to the reception room there were five graying women clustered around a big table stacked with lists of registered voters, chanting out names, addresses, and party affiliations. Four of them resembled washerwomen but the fifth was nattily dressed in a tweedy jacket, orange scarf, and a chic red hat. Three typists had appeared during our short absence and were peeking out news releases. Smith explained "Of course Mr. Curley's regular political life keeps him busy. That's the only reason these people are working...
...plot, The Dividing Stream adds up to little more than an emotional tempest in a cracked teacup. Atmospherically, English Novelist Francis King, 28, does better. In dozens of pungent little Florentine sketches, ranging from cynical policemen to bent-double washerwomen, he evokes the passion and poverty of the people. Most memorable: two scrubby street urchins who think and move with an artless, pagan ease which suggests that the good life, and not a twisted packet of "problems," is man's rightful heritage...