Word: womaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luce is perhaps too much a compulsive wit to be the ideal diplomat. She has trouble keeping separate the many things she is and dimming her own radiance enough to see the prudent course. Yet she is certainly among the better noncareer diplomats we've had, a woman of the world, who in no sense but the Pickwickian is an "ugly American...
Ever since they gave women the right to vote back in the United States' dark ages, the so-called weaker sex has clamored for more and better education as one of the necessities of the New American Woman. Radcliffe College stands today as one of the many monuments to the success which has attended her quest...
...compensation, Stevens concentrates upon Anne's metamorphosis from child to woman, on her love affair with Peter, a young boy confined with the Franks in the garret. While certainly present in the actual diary, these elements were in relatively small proportion...
...highlights that gave the company's stars a chance to display whatever muscles they had failed to flex earlier. There were a few quiet numbers-a beautifully danced version of Fokine's Les Sylphides (called Chopiniana by the Russians), an embarrassingly mawkish pantomime called A Blind Woman, which Prima Ballerina Ulanova almost managed to make acceptable. But most of the evening was given over to acrobatics: spinning, headlong leaps into the arms of supporting male dancers; a vaulting lift in which Ballerina Struchkova balanced light as a gull on the arched chest of her partner; a delicate tracery...
Dirty Looks. Back at Silver Spring he was driving to work one morning when he stopped at a traffic light behind a young woman driver. The light turned green; her car went unexpectedly into reverse. Bumpers met with a small crash. Jim, a noncombative man, pulled around the flustered girl and gave her a slightly disdainful look. A few minutes later, walking into the laboratory, he met the same girl...