Word: womaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advance rebuttal of charges that such things cannot really happen, Psychiatrist Searles cites his own experience with a woman patient who seemed to be trying to seduce him while talking international politics. "Responding on these two unrelated levels," he says, "I found it such a strain that I felt as though I were losing my mind." In this case, sanity and psychiatry...
...that she can only shake his hand and stutter civilities. "Was Dienbienphu awful?" "Yes. Toward the end of the siege we ran out of wine." "That must have been awful." "Yes." A honeymoon breaks the ice, but the relationship refreezes when the marchioness discovers that her marquis keeps a woman on the side, and maintains any number of "little 5-to-7" friendships. From this point the comedy evolves into an earnest lecture, delivered by the marquis' uncle (Maurice Chevalier), on the merits of marriage in the Gallic manner. The French, according to this movie, understand these things better...
...over some very good, very old brandy. His trick is to talk mostly about people and not too much about his advertised subject. The novels of Germany's Goethe make an occasion to discuss a man of genius who found it hard to keep away from a pretty woman. After a lucid introduction to Hindu religion, he describes the life of a swami who found the secret of existence in a boyhood flash of illumination and pursued a course of sainthood to his death. And by the simple process of digging up the diaries of three French writers...
...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant Eastern view of a fallen woman, who rises by union with nature rather than by struggle against...
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A rage to teach fires some first-rate action about a child-intoxicated woman...