Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fictional accounts of the hair-raising heroics of a modern policewoman are all wrong, according to Miss Elizabeth Taylor, who packs a gun, but never uses it, in her role as the only woman on Cambridge's Crime Prevention Bureau...
Hirshfield also had a high regard for his own work. He painted ten hours a day, every day. His work was as doggedly patterned as herringbone cloth. He never used a model for his nudes, explaining that at his age he "couldn't very well bring a nude woman in and paint her. It wouldn't look right." Collector Sidney Janis, Hirshfield's discoverer, thinks that Stage Beauties with Angels (see cut) grew out of a burlesque-show memory. Hirshfield was always having model trouble. For his Lion painting he tried the zoo, pictures at the public...
Most readers will find it hard to go all the way with such extreme admiration. But they will certainly agree that in its ambitiousness and audacity, Under the Volcano makes the average novel look small and timid. It begins with a simple triangle (two brothers, one woman), around which Author Lowry constructs a huge and complicated interplay of struggle and emotion...
...figure of free enterprise and individualism -sexual, of course, as well as economic. Pritchard is a cartoon of the corpsy soul of Anglo-U.S. capitalism, self-deceived and remote from natural life; Mrs. Chicoy is a type of frank, stupid and violent sensuality; Mrs. Pritchard is The Nice Woman, that baneful figure, whose frigidity is the source and symbol of her other deathly qualities; Mildred, her sulky offspring, apparently represents the healthy rebellion of youth in favor of life; and the. party girl, Camille Oaks, stands for commercialized...
When an overbearing Scottish bailiff tries to put an old woman's dog to death because she can't afford a license, the journalist makes an issue of it, a laughing stock of the politician, and a bride of his sympathetic daughter. The journalist is sued, enabling the plot to disentangle itself in a fast-moving, hilarious court scene. Through the failure of his plans, the father understands that men must be allowed to think for themselves, and that democracy is ultimately the only possible form of government...