Word: womaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Podola "looked very pitiful. His behavior was odd." Police Surgeon John Shanahan testified that when he examined Podola then, "it was impossible to make contact with him." Other police doctors told how Podola gradually began to recover, and even to volunteer remembered bits, e.g., a memory picture of a woman called Ruth, and a child called Micky he believed was theirs. Noting signs of Podola's "withdrawal," one doctor said that Podola "liked to keep near the wall when he moved along the corridor." "It is an accepted thing that distinguished scholars like to walk near the wall," observed...
...dangers of pregnancy for women over 40 have been greatly exaggerated, says Obstetrician Albert L. Higdon of Teaneck, N.J. Before a Canadian meeting of obstetricians and gynecologists, he reported that studies of 21,000 mothers indicate that childbirth presents only slightly greater risks to a woman of 40 than to one of 20. The older women bore only a slightly higher percentage of Mongoloid children, suffered no more difficult deliveries, had an average mortality rate...
...realized," said Richard Strauss of the Meisterwerk of his middle age, "that the opera would never have much success." He was speaking of Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), the huge complex of mythology and symbolism that he constructed with Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal during World War I. Strauss guessed correctly: since its premiere in Vienna in 1919, the work has rarely been staged in Europe and never in the U.S. Last week Die Frau finally appeared on a U.S. stage in a San Francisco Opera production that made cheering audiences wonder where she had been...
Faced with the man-sized problem of filling another hour of its irregularly scheduled documentary series titled Woman!, the CBS news staff asked itself a challenging question: "Is the American woman losing her femininity?" On the debatable premise that San Francisco is "a woman's city, where men are very outspoken about femininity," the network last week turned west for its answer...
Unfortunately for Woman!, San Francisco's women were no more helpful than their husbands. Junior Leaguers worried politely about whether they were supposed to learn the feminine graces at home or in school; a suburban housewife announced grimly that "by golly, my husband is not going to outgrow me." Anthropologist Margaret Mead finally arranged a truce in CBS's planned skirmish between the sexes by explaining that women are becoming less feminine, men less masculine, and that both sexes are "behaving more like people." Whatever that meant, Dr. Mead happily added the observation that there will probably always...