Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taking the elevator down to breakfast (fortunately, Vag lived in Quincy), he discovered he had communication problems. When he tried to ask the cleaning woman who was riding with him what she would do if she was changed into a tape recorder, all that came out was a high pitched garble suggesting a recording being played backwards on the wrong speed. The cleaning woman, who possessed great presence of mind, reached over and patted Vag consolingly, hunted around among his several tapes and--with a smile of satisfaction--placed one on the machine...
...Folk Literature at Cornell, dabbled in radio, eventually gravitated to L.S.U. because he was fascinated by the diversity of folk music in Louisiana. He follows the folk trail in a battered 1953 Mercury, tracking down leads with the persistence of a questing lepidopterist. Recently he heard of a mulatto woman named Madame Sam who lived in Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, and supposedly sang a particularly unadulterated brand of old French. Sam, it turned out, was not up to her billing, but she sent Oster chasing downriver to Port Sulphur, where another ancient mulatto named Alma Bartholomew produced...
...translate a complex business or political situation into plain horse sense made him a number of friends, but never found him a wife. When needled about his bachelorhood, Richardson explained his private theory about life: "Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman. They're all wantin' a landin' field, but mine's fogged...
Although marquees proclaim Sophia Loren as the female star of Anatomy of Love, the film was made some years ago, and she is little more than a teen-age straight woman for Toto the comedian. She appears only in the final episode, a brief, ridiculous farce. Sophia nonetheless shows the shape of things to come...
Saints issue from the hand of God, but they are canonized on earth. In what seems a paradox to most non-Catholics, the Roman Catholic Church brings the full light of reason to play on a complex mystery of faith: whether a man or woman has displayed Christlike sanctity, including the performance of miracles. To this question, the church brings the meticulous accounting of a bank examiner, the ferreting instincts of a good detective, and the judicial lore of centuries of precedents. In practice, these are embodied in an initial diocesan investigation of claims to sainthood, followed by a formal...