Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fault belongs to technology. It was technology that emancipated woman--with gadgetry, contraception, and soap operas. Electric mixers, washing-drying-and-ironing machines, self-regulating gas ranges, automatic defrosters, frozen foods, Pillsbury cake mixes, vacuum cleaners and Simonize floor wax. The American woman left the sink for the radio, women's magazines, matinees, and the Book-of-the-Month Club. And dissatisfaction...
Herself an acid-tongued footnote to British history, Virginia-born Lady Astor gaily recalled her debut as first woman seated in the Mother of Parliaments (in 1919). Escorted on her entrance by Lloyd George and A. J. Balfour-"both of whom were trembling, they were so ashamed"-Lady Astor even stirred up a critique on her big moment from a clarion-voiced observer: "Afterwards Sir Winston Churchill said I had made a very remarkable performance-but he would only speak to me in the lobby, not in the House. He said: 'When you entered, I felt you had come...
...book. But the sweeping, intricate score pulsed with moments of moving lyricism: Edgar's proposal to Cathy ("Make me whole again"), Cathy's "dream" aria in which she confesses her love of Heathcliff. Audience reaction was tepid; "I liked the movie better," said one mink-draped woman. But professionals in the audience cheered. Said Metropolitan Opera Board Member Howard J. Hook Jr.: "This puts the Met to shame. How come we let Santa Fe steal a march...
...Marion Hilliard, M.D., 56, Canadian gynecologist whose thoughtful essays on the act and fact of love won transcontinental gratitude; of cancer; in Toronto. With "a happy bedroom" the central aim of her medical philosophy, Spinster Hilliard published many articles in Chatelaine, collected them in one best-selling volume (A Woman Doctor Looks at Love and Life...
...subtle story of Britain's tugboat captains of World War II, and of the woman several of them loved; with Sophia Loren, William Holden, Trevor Howard (TIME, July...