Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There he stayed for 17 years. Police kept him on their "wanted" list, but cunningly, Yvonne Vasseur shopped for two on her tiny widow's pension by dividing her purchases among several shops. She knit him special slippers with felt soles, so that the neighbors would not hear him. In his garret Vasseur learned seven languages to add to his French and German; she learned Latin to help him along, brought him down to watch TV on quiet nights. In 1962, police discovered him accidentally. Paying a routine call on Mme. Vasseur, they rang the neighbor's doorbell...
...outward signs of mourning-veils and widow's weeds, black hat-and armbands, crape-hung doorways-are going the way of the hearse pulled by plumed horses. There is almost no social censure against remarrying a few months after bereavement in what one psychiatrist calls "the Elizabeth Taylorish way" (referring to her statement six months after Husband Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash: "Mike is dead now, and I am alive"). Many psychologists who have no quarrel with the life-must-continue attitude are dubious about the decline in expression of grief. Psychology Professor Harry W. Martin...
Whether or not such conclusions are justified, the take-it-in-stride attitude can make things difficult. Gorer cites his brother's widow, a New Englander, whose emotional reticence, combined with that of her British friends, led her to eschew any outward signs of mourning. As a result, "she let herself be, almost literally, eaten up with grief, sinking into a deep and long-lasting depression." Many a widow invited to a party "to take her mind off things" has embarrassed herself and her hostess by a flood of tears at the height of the festivities. On occasion, Gorer...
...time Nero takes on the "whole, damn Federal Bureau of Investigation." He does it mostly because he is offered the biggest fee he has ever had, and this promises months and months of gourmandizing before he would need to go back to work. His client is a middle-aged widow who has sent friends and bigwigs thousands of copies of a book attacking the FBI. Ever since, the G-men have been following and harassing her. She wants Nero to make them lay off. The fat genius plunges in, following a tortuous, tightly plotted path until a nifty stunt finally...
Born. To Betty Shabazz, 30, widow of militant Negro Leader Malcolm X who was murdered last February after breaking with the Black Muslims; her fifth and sixth children, twin girls; in Brooklyn...