Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry at man's fate, diminished by French taste into a touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...
...handle their business problems. Women colleagues on other campuses did not always appreciate White's efforts. "They think I'm trying to hem women in," he once complained. "I'm trying to liberate them. I won't be satisfied until I hear a woman say with pride, 'I'm a housewife...
...infinite series of identical and isolated fruit salads." He gave his students a thorough grounding in literature, art and history, brought to his campus such teachers as Composer Darius Milhaud, Author (The Friendly Persuasion) Jessamyn West and Music Critic Alfred Frankenstein. Since the career of the average woman, White argued, is to raise a family, why not prepare her for it while at the same time giving her the intellectual background to play her role creatively...
...merely by virtue of wealth, but because he is the best hunter, the most responsible citizen, the man whose word commands immediate respect. Yet, at the same time, everyone suspects the truth about Wade and Hannah Hunnicutt's marriage-that he has slept with just about every other woman in the county. He has a preference for married women, and altogether too many youngsters in the town are dead ringers for Wade Hunnicutt. All this his wife Hannah knows, as well as the whittlers down on the square. Now she lives for two things: to raise her son Theron...
What sort of woman was Miss Howard? "Intriguer," "courtesan," "creature," "English chain," are some of the unkind names she has been called. Gallant, Gallic Mme. Maurois will have none of these. At the end of a biography that lacks her husband's professional brilliance but is highly competent in its own right, Author Maurois tenderly quotes the description of Miss Howard given to an interviewer by an aged servant of Beauregard: "I shall never forget Milady descending the stairs in the Chateau on the tick of seven in a great crinoline and wearing all her pearls. Ah, Monsieur...