Word: womanfully
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Angela Lansbury came to Harvard yesterday afternoon to receive the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' "Woman of the Year Award" for her "great acting ability and femininity...
Amidst the release of 1000 balloons and the wail of a State Police escort, Angela Lansbury will arrive in Cambridge at 1:10 p.m. today to receive the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Woman of the Year Award...
Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge (TIME, Feb. 16) depicts a transvestite who tries to make it both as a man and as a woman, and winds up no woman at all and only half a man. Three other new novels share with Myra her/his/its preoccupation-or experimentation-with artificial sex. But unlike Myra, which is redeemed somewhat by Vidal's satirical skill, these books have the lifeless neutrality of assignments thought up by publishers' accountants and carried out by literary conscripts. They not only fail to exalt, amuse, enrage, inform, misinform or anesthetize; they also fall short...
When Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex) casts her cold, existentialist eye on the predicament of modern woman, the author emerges like a tough-minded, hardhearted Fransoise Sagan. Les Belles Images has sold over 100,000 copies in France for reasons that have nothing to do with the art of fiction. In its brief compass (long enough to irritate, short enough to finish between lunch and cocktails), the novel lambastes modern life, love, marriage and values with thoroughgoing cynicism. It is bound to have an insidious appeal: it can make a woman wallow in self-pity. The scene...
This is a book that should give pause to the Pulitzer Prize committee that awarded the palm to its author for a novel that was stronger but not much better (Andersonville). The new novel's problem is simple enough: What happens when a twice-widowed white woman falls in love with her male mulatto cook? Pretty much what one would expect down on the Gulf Coast in 1854. He is handsome and graceful and goes by the name of Beauty Beast. He knows what to do with herbs and French sauces, and he can play Mozart and lesser composers...