Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...values of the stories made the anti-fascist slogans make sense, like Azdak's Solomon-like decision that Grusha keeps the governor's child because she won't try to pull him from a circle in a tug-of-war with the governor's ambitious widow. As a result, The Caucasian Chalk Circle has a traditional, tender, open quality that Brecht rarely allowed himself, and an archetypal quality that makes its hope seem universal, the natural birthright, sold again and again but somehow always recovered, of all the people of a constantly changing world...
...avoid clean lines that trace intricate detail and fuse broad patches of light and shade. They don't intend to document, just coax an emotional response. She did a series on motherhood, in which titles were appended as interpretations. For example, "Blessed Art Thou Among Women," and "The War Widow." The latter depicts a lank, forlorn woman with a child raised against her shoulder, her flat white gown leaping from deep shadow...
...because Bellini's Italian librettist, Carlo Pepoli, thought Plymouth was in Scotland instead of southern England. The curtain rises to find the Puritans in league with Cromwell in his battle against the Cavaliers loyal to the Stuarts. The Puritan leader, Lord Walton, is even holding prisoner the widow of Charles I, Enrichetta...
...most magnetic and charming with women. Over the years, followers of the Johnson career noted how he enjoyed flirting with, among others, the irrepressible Barbara Howar, Actress Merle Oberon, and White House Journalist Marianne Means. Questioned on the Today Show last week by Barbara Walters, his widow Lady Bird, 61, did not deny Lyndon had been a ladies' man. "Lyndon was a people lover," she said, "and that did not exclude half the people in the world -women. Oh, I think perhaps there was a time or two ..." Mrs. Johnson did not finish that sentence, but her next illustrated...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who has been described as "Washington's other monument," is unique among Americans: daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, widow of House Speaker Nicholas Longworth (who died in 1931), personally acquainted with every President since Benjamin Harrison, indomitable doyenne on the Washington social circuit for decades. The nation's mighty court her, celebrities seek invitations to tea, Washington taxi drivers lean out and yell, "Hi, Alice!" Marking her 90th birthday this week, "Princess Alice," an affectionate sobriquet from her White House years, continues to survey the capital scene from her rambling mansion on Washington...