Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alphabetically from the Association of San Francisco Potters to the World Affairs Council. Sitting nervously on the stage, and at times close to tears, was the object of this outpouring of affection: durable, forthright Dr. Grace Louise McCann Morley, 57 (TIME, Feb. 28, 1955). Dr. Morley, the most respected woman museum director in the U.S., and the dominant spokesman for contemporary art on the West Coast, was retiring after 23 years as director of the San Francisco Museum...
...swept over us," was the big Clyfford Still abstraction by the man who, along with Mark Rothko, sparked San Francisco's abstract art revival ("And don't think I wasn't baffled by them at first," she admits). Henry Moore's carved-wood Reclining Woman stood as symbol of her unceasing effort to bring the best of modern art to San Francisco, thus help bridge the gap that had tended to keep the West Coast ten to fifteen years behind trends set in Paris and Manhattan...
...woman has slipped into the uneasy circle of England's Angry Young Men. No charter member of that club-not even Osborne or Amis-can have much to teach Author Doris Lessing about her craft. Moreover, her anger is never clothed in whining self-pity or adolescent sneers. Born in Persia, raised in South Africa and now a Londoner, Doris Lessing finds life less than perfect wherever she finds herself. The short stories in The Habit of Loving pick up her quarry in places as varied as France, South Africa, England, Bavaria. As might be expected, the title...
...title story, an old man of the theater still has the habit but not the manpower to go with it. Left by his mistress, aging George tries to remarry his divorced wife. Turned down, he turns to a much younger woman for whom the old boy is a catch of convenience. Married, he discovers that a marriage of male habit and female indifference is not enough to keep off the evening chill. After a trip to Italy, his wife recites a simple fact of life to him: "George, you know you're getting too old for this sort...
Neither selfless love nor old-fashioned romantic love gets much of a chance in these stories. Their themes can be banal, as in He, which has a pathetic and overworked English shrew driving her husband into the arms of another woman but wanting him back at any cost. Sometimes the habit becomes just plain infidelity, as in Getting Off the Altitude. In A Mild Attack of Locusts, the habit turns into love of the land, even when the African locusts make the land a crushing burden. A female leftist in The Day Stalin Died has the party habit...