Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense of their own character; and those qualities go far toward cementing marriage. Humphrey Bogart married Lauren Bacall when he was 45 and she 20. Said he: "The mature man is more experienced. He has read more books, seen more of the world. He knows how to court a woman. He has learned the hundred little courtesies that make her happy she is a woman...
...rock. The man's character is formed, his life shaped." There is no generalizing on the subject, however. Pablo Casals, 92, takes an almost childlike pleasure in his wife Marta, more than 50 years his junior. T. S. Eliot felt that his marriage at 68 to a woman 39 years his junior helped him mature. When he turned 70, the mellowing poet declared: "I'm just beginning to grow...
...evidence that they turn out any worse than most unions-and possibly they work a lot better. Older men, for example, are no longer obsessed by their careers, and are much less likely to become obsessed with other young women. They are more indulgent; and besides, with them a woman is much less conscious of her own aging. Above all, the old and young partners are generally apt to consider their marriages more thoroughly beforehand than coevals might...
...sense of possibility and experiment rather than mere resignation to the inevitable. A maxim has it that it is "better to be an old man's darling than become a young man's slave." At the same time, it may sometimes be better to be a young woman's darling than an old woman's curmudgeon...
...takes several hours and several 200 bus fares for a woman to avail herself of them and, lacking a babysitter, she probably has to drag her other children along with her. The northern Bronx is largely white, Jewish and health-oriented; there, women go routinely to their private physicians for the same services...