Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera was composed by John M. Perkins '58 for last April's operatic presentation by the Lowell House Musical Society. The libretto, the tale of a married woman whom three men attempt to seduce, was written by Wayne Shirley...
Women. To the Italian Women's Center: "Women are creation's masterpiece . . . The concept of the woman of the shipyards, of the mines, of heavy labor as it is exalted and practiced by some countries in the name of progress is anything but a modern concept. It is a sad return toward epochs that Christian civilization buried long...
...conquered most of them, comes now to the challenge of the processes called "chronic diseases" -a term with an unfortunate implication of hopelessness. Today's medicine men neither seek nor expect miracles. They put no stock in parthenotherapy, such as David tried when he took the young Shunammite woman to his bed-though the idea won medical-intellectual backing in the 18th century, is now suggested obliquely by Lolita and Humbert Humbert. Neither have they any use for rejuvenators such as the animal-testicle elixir developed by British Physiologist Brown-Sequard, the severing of the seminal vessels advocated around...
...turn up with all this riffraff Hate the World. Still, Tanguy was happy in the little house outside Vichy where they settled, and for a while he felt like "an ordinary boy again." But the parents quarreled, and his mother decided to move on. The police arrested the woman and child on vague political charges. "Who denounced us?" asked Tanguy. "Your father," was the reply. At that moment Tanguy hated the whole world, "his father and mother, the policemen ... all grownups, because they seemed to hate him, and he was only seven years...
...take it away from him. The rest of The Long Night tells how Steely tries to beg, borrow or steal $27. No one will let him work for it. The Harlem fancy man for whom he has done odd jobs offers a single dollar. In desperation Steely snatches a woman's purse only to wind up with $2. When he steals a bicycle, planning to sell it, it is in turn stolen from him by a rival gang. When he decides to throw away the last of his father's carefully instilled ideals and roll a drunk, Steely...