Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walls, but is nonetheless scheduled for an early a.m. burning. Alizon Eliot, a young breath of innocence fresh from the convent, comes to marry Humphrey Devise, is playfully desired by the impish younger brother Nicholas, falls in love with orphaned Richard, the Mayor's clerk, and grows into a woman by the end of act three. The witch, Jennet, also has time to bewitch Thomas Mendip, the world-weary stranger, (by this time a self-styled Satan) and these two loves develop in counterpoint while the mayor blusters and blows his nose, the Justice strives to look official, the mother...
Dean Brown and Master Perkins, however, stood up for Radcliffe's offering a man's education to women. Nowadays a woman must be prepared to make her own career, claimed Perkins, and Dean Brown stressed that Radcliffe's influence might be helpful in restraining vocationalism at Harvard...
More Than Matter. In the course of the story, Montés touches three people-a broad-hipped mare of a peasant woman, with whom he sits for one evening and talks; and her two little girls, who follow him about for the gumdrops he hands out. But fate, Novelist Simon seems to be saying with irony, cooperates enthusiastically in making martyrs of saints; the woman is murdered, and the two children are taken away. "Man," writes the author, "is doubtless something more than matter; perhaps not much more, but all the same a little something more, just enough...
...author's odd conclusion is perhaps colored by the fact that Perry Madoc is all girl, and a parson's daughter. Anne Humphreys by name, she is a fortyish Welsh woman, chose the house of Collins as her English publisher "because you publish the Book of Common Prayer...
...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant Eastern view of a fallen woman, who rises by union with nature rather than by struggle against...