Word: womaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Actor Messemer skillfully suggests a man who is more than he seems, while Actor Biberti devastatingly portrays a man who is less than he thinks. As for Actress Schell, she shows remarkable control of the subtle, brutal stages by which an unknowing girl is transformed into a bitterly experienced woman, who at the end can say with utter and awful authority: "What a small world you live in. You don't know what happens outside it. But I do. I have learned...
This first novel by a woman in her forties is an astonishing work, one of the few rewarding books of a so-so season. The spinster of the title is Anna Vorontosov, a schoolteacher in back-country New Zealand. She is a small woman of uncertain age, whose passions are still young because she has never used them. Gifted but a little balmy, Anna primes herself for school each morning with half a tumbler of brandy, frequently gets the weeps, talks persuasively to trees and flowers, has stupendous headaches in Technicolor. Wildly alive, Anna flinches only at the thought...
Anna Vorontosov is a major literary creation, a woman forever leaping to the barricades against mediocrity. The joy of teaching has seldom been more beautifully described than in this book. It seems only right-and not melodramatic-that Paul, a fellow teacher who respects neither the minds nor the bodies of his pupils, should blow out his brains. It is Author Ashton-Warner's view that teaching is a most dangerous activity, particularly at the level where the untutored five-year-old first collides with the civilized world. They may seem adorable infants now, but they are the whores...
Statecraft & Stagecraft. With a female eye for pageantry and a female solidarity with a woman both hated and admired by historians. British Biographer Jenkins has painted a string of brilliant miniatures of her heroine. She maintains that the Queen had a kind of magic ("a quality of incantation") about her by which she managed to unite state, nation and the reformed religion in one person. How else explain the almost mystical response by the London mob to her coronation progress through the streets? Elizabeth, crying "God 'a mercy" to her people from beneath a canopy held by knights...
...Mistress (Japanese). A beautifully Eastern view of the rise of a fallen woman, who struggles to submit to nature rather than to the Western way of struggling against...