Word: womaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shipowner Onassis sang a variation on the Callas theme: "Friends have described me as a sailor," went his barcarolle. "Sailors do not usually go for sopranos." But, he added, "I would indeed be flattered to have a woman of her class fall...
...fault is all mine for deluding myself with hopes of immortal love. I was building a little masterpiece. Then I fell in love with my masterpiece and I married her. I created Callas, and she repaid me with a stab in the back. She was a fat, clumsily dressed woman, a refugee, a gypsy when I met her. She had not a cent nor any prospect for a career. I had to rent her a room at a hotel and had to put up $700 so she could remain in Italy. I never exploited her. Can one exploit...
...woman justified in killing to protect her chastity? Last week Rome heard a Jesuit priest take the air to answer the question with a resounding...
...against an unjust aggressor, even to the point of killing him, when there is no other way of saving one's life. That which holds true in defense of one's life also holds true in the case of un just aggression against the purity of a woman ... I would say that the girl in voked a right and fulfilled a duty. I would add that Christian morality certainly would have condemned her had she re lented and allowed herself to be carried into the woods...
...supposedly blase French last week lined up along the Champs Elysees to see the latest movie by Director Roger (And God Created Woman) Vadim, the man who virtually invented Brigitte Bardot. Forgetting France's reputation for tolerance, half the Cabinet had insisted on seeing, and in effect censoring, Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Affairs), based on an 18th century classic novel about what might be called advanced sex education. The frank and cynical description of the affairs of two wideranging lovers-aided by a camera so candid that it sometimes even peeped under the bed sheets-was carefully edited before...