Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ourselves a mayor!" cried a white college student from New York. "We did it! We did it!" exulted a middle-aged Negro man. "Amen, amen," murmured an elderly Negro woman, tears starting from her eyes. It was 3:02 a.m. at a downtown hotel, and Cleveland, the nation's tenth biggest city, had just chosen as its mayor Carl Burton Stokes, great-grandson of a slave, over Seth Taft, grandson of a President...
...Margaret Leighton gave the performance of the evening. There was one moment when her body seemed to break apart as she crossed the stage. You saw how completely the woman and her tiny hopes were crushed. Whenever she spoke, she started out eagerly, then collapsed from fear of being reprimanded. Still, she perched on her chair awaiting the split second in a conversation that would be hers to fill...
...same could be said about De La Renta's clothes generally, for he designs with the woman of over 30 firmly in mind. "There is no other age for a woman," he says. "When she is over 30, she is just starting to live her life to the fullest." A man of his word, Oscar de La Renta during a lunch hour last week slipped down to New York's city hall to marry Franchise de Langlade, 36, outgoing editor of French Vogue. By mid-afternoon he was back at work, putting the finishing touches on his spring...
...lack of discipline at boarding school. She told how "the President" heeded her motherly advice to wear a striped tie on TV because it looked chic, and to keep his hands out of his pockets. Throughout her recollections, she was at once a nostalgic mother and a gallant woman. As Reasoner summed up: "When you talk to Rose Kennedy now in the setting of this old house, which would put her in mind of the sadnesses of long life if anything would, what you hear is thankfulness for the opportunities life gave her and her family-not bitterness. This...
...like, well, a fellow hollering down a drainpipe. On the state-fair cir cuit, he harvests $25,000 for an appearance in which he tells a few jokes ("The tornado was so bad a hen laid the same egg twice") and does songs (She Was a T-Bone Talking Woman but She Had a Hot-Dog Heart}. In Las Vegas, he sings "You load 16 tons and what do you get? A hernia." That's good for $40,000 a week...