Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons for Charles de Gaulle's electoral triumph in Algeria last November was his giving Algerian women the vote. The woman who took most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back...
...girls (the right of djebr), often to men they had never seen. In classic Koranic fashion, husbands could get rid of a wife simply by saying, "I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you," or by tearing up the marriage papers ("breaking the cards," in Algerian slang). A woman had no legal rights over her children and could be cut off without a sou of alimony. Gradually, from behind innumerable veils, the cry went up: "Kif-kif la Française" (roughly: Let us be just like the French lady...
...Gertrude Stein impressed me as a woman who was very careless about her appearance and dress; very alive to all kinds of interests and liable to question the viewpoints of her instructors. She was very fond of Mrs. Oppenheimer (through whom Mr. Friedman met the Steins), who was a very motherly woman and took both Gertrude and Leo under her wing, had them at her house quite a little, and fed them more lavishly than the way in which they were living in Cambridge at the time...
Harlow Russell III '60, of Eliot House and Winchester, was elected president of the Pierian Sodality. Under the provisions of a recent merger, Sigrid A. Lemlein '60, of Moors Hall and Brookline, the first woman to be elected to the Sodality since 1808, became house president. Robert C. Kogan '62, of pennypacker Hall and New Rochelle, N.Y., was chosen secretary. and Paul H. Riesman '60, of Adams House and Cambridge, was elected treasurer...
Nevertheless, she became restless and bored. Though her formal education had stopped after a year of high school, Gertrude Stein decided she was going to Harvard. Latin was required for entry, and Gertrude knew only German and French. The stories of how this titanic young woman came to be admitted do not agree. In any case, Radcliffe accepted her and she went to live in a Cambridge boarding house, which she described as "interesting and knowing a lot who I had never seen before...