Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a report* on the average TIME-reading woman (some of whom are displayed on this page via the snapshots they sent us) to pose against the average TIME-reading man I discussed here a few issues ago (TIME...
...seems that the average TIME-reading woman is 5 ft. 5 in. in height, weighs 134 Ibs. (and wishes she weighed less - which 40% do), has an average $14.37 cash her pocketbook. At the time she received our mail questionnaire she was, by & large, either reading, resting, telephoning, primping, cooking, washing dishes, cleaning the house, doing the laundry, returning home or calling for her mail...
Inasmuch as this average TIME-reading woman is married (76% are), her daytime hours are spent largely at home. She does her own housework (although 33% have part-or full-time help), takes an active part in church and civic affairs, bought four new dresses or suits last year (almost all of them tailored to the "new look") without much help from her husband - although 13% said he was there when the purchases were made. She has nine pairs of shoes, five hats, and four pieces of jewelry which she values...
...makes a pass at Wilde and never afterward forgives him for not tumbling. She high-pressures her guileless husband into a political career and into sabotaging his old friend's political prospects. She unearths and exploits the Wilde-Baxter love affair. She is clearly not the kind of woman who is useful around any town, and in the long run people find her out. After that, they live, more or less happily, ever after...
This Very Earth runs its weary preordained course of rape, murder and stupidity without once arousing the slightest emotional response. The dialogue bears no living relationship to the character speaking it, and the characters are all pressed from the same worn Caldwell dies: the lazy, immoral man; the cheap woman who sells herself cheaply; the slobbering sadist who beats his wife. The reader soon gets the uncomfortable feeling that he is watching the uncoordinated performance of a once-talented dancer who still remembers all the steps and postures but has forgotten how to dance...