Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy Library, which is temporarily housed at the Federal Records Center in Waltham, began receiving the papers in 1972 from Mary Hemingway, the author's widow...
Lotte Lenya, Kurt Weill's widow, and the original star of Weill's Threepenny Opera, will be in Boston for an "evening of song, poetry and conversation" at the Cabaret at the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St. Lenya is a great singer and a great woman, something like the other side of Marlene Dietrich. There's no way this evening won't be worth it. Monday...
Melville's death brought Alpert high celebrity in radical circles as a sort of gold star widow of the left. For an Introduction to a book of his prison letters, she wrote a warm memoir of Melville that in passing chided him for his attitudes toward women. But as the radical movement disintegrated and feminism rose, her views about her dead lover hardened. He became a violent sexist who had manipulated her love in large and small ways, including once writing "wash me" on a refrigerator to remind her of her domestic duties. In 1973 she wrote a long...
Engaged. Former New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner, 64; and Phyllis Fraser Cerf, 59, editor, author (The Complete Family Fun Book) and widow of Random House Founder Bennett Cerf. The marriage will be his third, her second. Wagner is a political adviser to New York Governor Hugh Carey, and Cerf is preparing a political and governmental guide to New York as a fund-raising vehicle for Carey...
Brown readily allows that the Lazarus account is a dramatic embellishment by John of an event that is nonetheless in some way historical. In the Gospels there are other instances of Jesus raising a dead person (the son of the widow of Nain in Luke), and Brown suggests that John may have transposed a similar event to the end of Christ's ministry to symbolize in one act the audacity of his miracles...