Word: widowhood
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...Alving is now the picture of conspicuously dignified widowhood: she bursts with maternal concern, bustles with philanthropic enterprise, buries herself in tastefully tweedy clothing. She also wages war in her living room. Her enemies are "ghosts": moral and cultural traditions that obstruct a free and happy life. As she explains to the straight-laced Manders...
False Hysterics. The problem is that there is nothing intrinsically funny about widowhood, grass or otherwise, and it is a mistake to try to create big boffs, broad running jokes out of these conditions. Silly, honest, human errors occur when someone is trying to make a new life, and it should be possible to make gentle rueful human comedy out of the attempt to muddle through. But Phyllis is paced and played as if it were a zany farce. Fay is hobbled by an ex-husband whose profession is surely borscht-belt comedy. It is impossible to understand...
...Johnson eventually moved to the White House, Angelo to TIME'S Washington news bureau, and their contact with each other continued. Last month Angelo and Lady Bird were together again as the former First Lady took time from a hectic schedule to reflect upon the problems of widowhood. Her thoughts appear this week in a special story in our Nation section...
Antidote. Despite being the wife of a man who dominated his family, Lady Bird remained a person in her own right. That identity has fortified her in her widowhood. "You have to prepare ahead of time," she says, "and nobody ever did so much to help anybody as Lyndon. He was ambivalent about it, but he wanted me to have my own thing, and he was proud of what...
Jane Grumpier thought that she had made an acceptable, if dangerous commitment when she married a fighter pilot in 1956, peacetime. But the 22-month period between his last flight and his first letter was a price she had not bargained for. She says widowhood at least has the finality she could learn to accept?"like a dark curtain falling over my life"?but imprisonment with no certain end is not graspable, a half-curtain. The price now, even with the knowledge that her husband is alive, is still too high for her and, she thinks, for the country...