Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...danger that Signature has failed to notice. If a college literary magazine advises young writers to serve up the saccharine puree that Good Housekeeping and Glamour prefer, 1960's novelists may very well be a bunch of alayeys, modeling their work to the taste of every tired, disillusioned woman's magazine editor. Signature would have done better if they tried to obtain local writer-teachers such as Albert Guerard or John Ciardi to give advice. They at least would have recognized that writing is still an art and a calling, not a trade that pays less in dignity and common...
...Woman's Vengeamce. Jessica Tandy and Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's story of jealousy and murder (TIME...
...hundred" or "A hundred to eighty." The usual bet was $100. The big ones-$1,000 and up-were made more quietly, by a whisper, a nod, a flick of a finger. On the wall was a sign saying "No Profanity Allowed." There was none. In the audience, one woman fed a baby from a bottle...
...cockfighters consider themselves more humane than Latin Americans, who use razor-edge "slashers.") The cocks hit each other almost two feet off the ground, in a staccato flap of wings. Every few minutes, handlers separated the cocks, sponged blood from their heads. Above the excited hubbub rose a woman's flat drawl: "Come on, red rooster, kill him." But it was the red rooster that got killed...
...survival." The humanists must likewise give up their emphasis on the subjective aspects of personality. He believes that mankind is at the greatest opportunity in its history. "The species can now . . . realize unity without loss of diversity or differentiation." The opportunity Author Whyte likens to that of a man & woman whose love remains in suspense until the first word is spoken...