Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were the raucous curses of a fat Kentucky harridan and the horrid spit of a North Carolina fanatic. But there was the fine, quiet dignity of a pretty, besieged Negro girl in Charlotte, and the warm and courageous heart of a gentle, white-haired woman in Little Rock. Where men and women of good will and good sense prevailed, the difficult, tradition-shattering, inevitable change moved...
...finally pulled up. Mrs. Lorch took Elizabeth's arm and shoved through the crowd. "I'm just waiting for one of you to touch me," said she. "I'm just aching to punch somebody in the nose." The crowd gave way before the white-haired woman and the little girl-and that was about as close as Little Rock came all week to Orval Faubus' manufactured "violence...
...foolishness. "We don't need troops here," said a Central sophomore. "They are supposed to keep the peace, but they push us around too much. If you want to stand on the sidewalk and look at somebody, the guards push us back." Cried a grey-haired woman: "Hey, kid, why don't you keep quiet?" Replied the boy: "Because I don't want to. It's a free country, lady...
...answers had better be good. All the standard lures-a private bath, a TV set, a good home-are so old hat that few agencies bother to inquire. The woman who wants help soon learns to rearrange meal schedules to keep cook happy (no more 8:30 dinners), give at least 48 hours' notice before having company. She gladly jitneys the live-out maid to and from home (and waits while she does her shopping), sometimes even turns over the family sedan for the live-in maid's days off (two a week). Modern dayworkers want a solid...
...parts he played, identifies his favorite sins-pride, sloth and greed-and recalls the judgment of a friend whose wife he had seduced: "This painted bastard here takes anything he can lay his hands on . . . the best part, the best seat, the best notice, the most money, the best woman . . . He's a cosmic case of the bugger who gets his penny and someone else...