Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best tempera technicians. His realistic landscapes, figure paintings and still lifes incline to be dull in color, but they have space, weight and solidity. And Sepeshy can reproduce the texture of almost anything in nature-from the barnacles on a beached boat to the faint down on a woman's neck. Says he: "I love the fine, eye-burning work involved. . . A friend tells me that my work is immaculate in everything but conception...
...prodigy and wanted to be an engineer. But on the day she registered at the University of Rome, she came across a tattered beggar carrying a sickly child. Though she could never stand the sight of blood, Maria decided then & there to become a doctor. She was the first woman ever to receive an M.D. from the University of Rome...
...week's headline-catching medical pronouncement came from a woman doctor: fatness, said Dr. Hilde Bruch of Columbia University's departments of psychiatry and pediatrics, is caused by overeating...
...young and grew up close to his father. Like Joe, he married when he was making barely enough money to support a wife, and was divorced from her after he became successful. Like Joe and like millions of Joes throughout the U.S., he is easily dominated by the woman-on-the-pedestal. (Says Oscar: "Men are wrapped up in unrealities, like business and art. They are birds of plumage. Women are realistic. Battle of the sexes? There is no battle. I simply surrender...
...Superman (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Maurice Evans) sets forth what is very likely Shaw's best-known theory but remains one of his least-seen plays. Longwindedness is its only very serious fault. After 42 years, Shaw's once explosive thesis (it is really woman who pursues man) may have all the soothing familiarity of a nursery rhyme; but after 42 years the play remains a wickedly witty comedy about the basis of marriage and the War Between the Sexes. And about anything else that happened to pop into Shaw's head...