Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dialogue is the only source of interest. There is hardly a plot: a sick, lonely, old woman struggles along a road to meet her husband at the railroad station; they start off, then stop to wrangle and reminisce. As for characterization, the minor characters are mediocre comic types, and the old couple merely querulous and sad. Waiting for Godot was even more deficient in plot and character, as these terms are usually understood, but the newer work somehow misses the odd, grim delightfulness that exempted Godot from all the usual demands that are made on a play. All That Fall...
Depressed after the operation, she tried vainly to adopt a second child. She lost interest in housework, devoted hours to playing with her daughter, sometimes reversing their roles. When her husband became interested in a more mature woman, she quickly seized upon pregnancy as the only means of keeping her home and selfesteem. Last year she developed all the symptoms of pseudocyesis, including the same sharp decrease in the insulin required to control her diabetes that she had experienced in her real pregnancies...
...Trouble for iproniazid, the remarkable new anti-depression drug introduced last year (TIME, Dec. 16), was sparked last week by the death of a San Francisco woman whose physician prescribed it. A coroner's jury ruled that her death (of hepatitis) was directly due to the drug, which is trade-named Marsilid by its maker, Hoffman-La Roche Inc. of Nutley. N.J. In January and February the drug house cut the recommended daily dosage for moderately depressed patients from 150 milligrams to a maximum of 50. It tried to notify most practicing U.S. physicians, but the information never reached...
...typically, the hero's wife is a virtuous bore with a distressing number of ailments. Huxley writes of women with the ruminative repulsion of a male spider half-digested in mid-honeymoon. When Mrs. Hutton is poisoned, it looks like Hutton's work. Actually another Huxley horror woman has done the deed. Hutton, the reader feels in the end, was unjustly but well and truly hanged...
Local Customs. In Duncan, Okla., a reporter, stopping people on the street to see how many could name at least one of the first ten Amendments to the Constitution, was told by one woman: "I really wouldn't know; I just moved to Duncan recently...