Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular stereotype of the faculty wife, teapot in hand, is not wrong, it is simply not inclusive. While Mrs. Owen may find it indispensible to the running of Winthrop House, Mrs. Bundy may have her teapot on the top shelf, out of the reach of her four small children, and Mrs. Schlesinger Jr. may use hers for a still life. Though the University affects all faculty wives its impact varies. The wives of the Masters, department chairmen, and administrative officials have a good deal "thrust upon them." A majority of the responsibility for hostessing newcomers' teas, "visiting firemen's" dinners...
...C.C.A. (Mrs. Bundy), practiced Medicine and law, painted and sung. They have written novels and children's stories, been professional photographers and served as Radcliffe trustees. Some of them sew, Mrs. Friederich having distinguished herself among the Faculty wives by making a man's jacket. Delmar Leighton's wife, knowing Cambridge well, works for a real estate agency in the Square. Mrs. Forbes, one time Assistant Director of the Radcliffe Choral Society, still makes it to Choral rehearsals now under the direction of her husband, Elliott...
...before have people so painfully close to Joyce stepped so personably out of the shadow of his reputation. There is his father John, a barroom wit and tosspot, would-be singer and doctor, who sired ten children and saddled his brood with eleven mortgages. There is Joyce's wife Nora, a Galway girl with a tart tongue and no head for "that chop suey he's writing," as she once said of Finnegans Wake. There is Brother Stanislaus, the plodding provident ant in Joyce's grasshopper life...
...waited an hour and a half, only to be pushed aside by the struggling crowd, explained, "I wanted to get the funnies for my wife." Another, more successful, man rushed off with his prize without waiting for the change from his $5 bill...
...good-natured Hulot (played by M. Tati, who also wrote and directed the film) in the form of a paunchy brother-in-law. Brother-in-law is an officer of an ultra-modern company which manufactures plastic hoses and similar useful items, and he has constructed for himself, wife and son a house with every conceivable inconvenience...