Word: widowhood
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Social scientists have long recognized that few traumas are as hard to bear as the death of a spouse. For the survivor, the intense distress can lead to serious psychological and physical ailments. Now, a new study of survivors shows that widowhood dramatically raises the chances of death for some survivors -men. The death of a husband has almost no effect on women's mortality rates...
...researchers do not know why wives are less affected by the loss of a spouse than husbands, except to suggest in their paper that "the same physiologic and psychologic differences that give females greater longevity than males also act to make females more resistant to the stress of widowhood." Says Helsing: "Women may be more adaptable. They may have more of a sense of survivability...
There are three central characters: Louise (Roxana Stuart), a genteel widow; Nora (Naomi Riseman), a widow of lower-class origins; and Louise's teen-age daughter Gloria (Melissa Leo). They live in Bethesda, Miss., at the turn of the century. In her widowhood Louise has taken a younger man, Mr. Merriwether (David Williams) as a lover, but he has left for a job in Memphis. She is desolate and yearns for his return. There are hints of Blanche DuBois in her, and white is the dominant color of the play. The set is white except for a square black...
...purpose of such an instrument than to want it to express her loyalty to the politicians toward whom she felt ppke a sister or a wife. Ths vulnerability and the sublimation of her feelings into intellectual, emotional, and political alliances, seemed to be a fundamental aspect of her widowhood...
...major new chapter in the alternately tragic and triumphant saga of the nation's most eminent modern political dynasty. Americans have gone through the bright hopes of Camelot and the dark night of two Kennedy assassinations. They were both titillated and dismayed by the spectacular dramas of Jackie's widowhood and remarriage and by Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick...