Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lobby of Club 21, the conclave gathered to proffer to Miss Joanne Woodward the award of Hasty Pudding Club Woman-of-the-Year. As she read a scroll citing her "great acting skill and feminine qualities," Miss Woodward murmured that she loved and appreciated "what...
Composer Poulenc produced a clean, clear score for a small orchestra that avoided sonoric effects, used no percussion instruments. He dramatized the woman's breathless silences, when her man speaks at the other end of the line, by surrounding them with tautly suspenseful music. Instead of using leitmotifs to represent love, abandonment, jealousy, he wrote separate sequences for each of the woman's pathetic appeals-her story of a suicide attempt, her memories of a trip, the pet dog that misses its master. Said Poulenc: "I tried to give the music an erotic flavor to show that...
WOMEN DRINKERS are returning to liquor ads, ending the gentlemen's agreement among admen not to use them. Calvert Distillers Co. will offer a Lady of Distinction (without glass in hand), while Glenmore Distilleries Co. will feature a woman in Scotch...
Died. Laurence Housman, 93, English playwright (Victoria Regina), novelist, brother of the late Poet A.E. (A Shropshire Lad) Housman, pacifist, pre-World War I woman-suffragist, satirist (The Life of H.R.H., the Duke of Flamborough); in Glastonbury, England. An icily patrician figure with dark eyebrows and a white, pointed beard, Laurence Housman described himself as "the most censored playwright in England-but the most respectable." His work was morally impeccable, but the British censor, following the letter of the law, would not allow him to present on the stage either the Holy Family (Bethlehem) or a recent monarch (prodded...
...Mistress (Japanese). A beautifully Eastern view of the rise of a fallen woman who struggles to submit to nature rather than to the Western way of struggling against...