Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pesticide poisoning has become a new issue in the four-year California grape pickers strike. Face swollen and complaining of dizziness and shortness of breath, a woman told the general counsel of the United Farm Workers, Jerome Cohen, that she had been drenched by wind-blown pesticides while working in a field. Other pickers have reported becoming sick after exposure to parathion and DDT. Cohen asked the Kern County agricultural commissioner for permission to see permits for pesticide spraying, which are required by California law. But before he could look at the records, three spraying companies obtained a court order...
...elder in Aghia Paraskevi. "On Sunday evening, everybody gets into the streets and walks up and down until they get tired." A young Gravian in shabby black suit and cap explains: "You must remember that this is a mountain village. We still expect our women to behave. No decent woman would be seen smoking, going to the cafe or riding a bicycle. If a girl goes out alone with a boy, it is as if they had gone to bed together. If they see each other during the big Sunday evening promenades and want to get married, they have...
...running mountain stream divides the town, the wrinkled village clerk explains why. "It was in 1947, right there," he says pointing. "Ioannis Ladas' mother tried to run across the street, carrying a baby nephew in her arms. Guerrillas shot her down, killed them both. She was a good woman." In Elaiohorion, Mayor and Cafe Proprietor Nikos Papathanasou, a distant cousin of Papadopoulos, was tortured by Communists, and so were three other men. The village doctor was killed by guerrillas and has never been replaced. Greece's foreign relations are now shaped by such intimate memories and private hatreds...
Sarah Clark is outstanding in her interpretation of the evil and tragic wife. This character develops brilliantly as the father's most terrible enemy and at the same time his closest, most longed after source of love. She is a woman driven by instinct rather than plan. Miss Clark is outstanding not in her portrayal of an absolute evil, but in her ability to refocus the attention of the audience through her weaknesses on the father as the prime source of his own downfall...
...League that Smith discovered the first installments of Finnegans Wake in transition and became fascinated with the parallels between poetry and the visual arts. A crudely constructed, painted Head of 1932 translates into visual terms the kind of controlled ambiguity that Joyce used: its profile simultaneously suggests a dancing woman...