Word: womanities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that economic anxiety and tougher competition are more significant factors. "Students are very concerned about job opportunities and the economy,'' says James Corbridge, vice chancellor at the University of Colorado. "They say, 'What's going to happen to me?' '' Adds an undergraduate woman at the University of Kansas...
...three generations of composers, including America's Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and Roger Sessions; in Paris. Though a promising composer, she taught indefatigably for five decades and had great influence on such American-born artists as Classicist Roy Harris and Experimentalist Philip Glass. She was also the first woman to conduct London's Royal Philharmonic, New York's Philharmonic and the Philadelphia and Boston symphony orchestras...
...pair bonding. The trouble with the pair on view is that only half of it, an unsteady young man named Charles (John Heard), is bonded. The other half has gone back to her husband. She is Laura (Mary Beth Hurt), a pretty and appealing but not very confident young woman who regards herself as quite ordinary. To the love-sotted Charles she is Cleopatra, and that is part of the problem. Each of them is unstrung, he by the crazy intensity of his love, she by his insistence that she is a marvel among women...
...establishing in Oxford, Miss., cost money. Hollywood offered him periodic stints of screen writing, and these paid some bills. The marketplace for short fiction provided another recourse. Luckily for Faulkner, at the time it was enormous: the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, American Mercury, American Magazine, This Week, Woman's Home Companion, Country Gentleman, Scribner's magazine. Faulkner received rejections from all of these journals, some now defunct, as well as from a few survivors like The New Yorker, but he also published enough to buy precious time for his novels...
...much smaller than it should be a couple of weeks before the election. About 45 Greek-Americans are sitting at the tables, chatting uniformly in Greek, and awaiting the candidate. There must be 300 donuts lying neatly arranged on the tables, but nobody has touched them. A young woman is manning the McDonalds-loaned drinking vat, but nobody seems to be interested...