Word: womanizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NONFICTION 1. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (1) 2. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (2) 3. The Making of the President '68, White (3) 4. Jennie, Martin (5) 5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (4) 6. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman (6) 7. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (8) 8. The Money Game,'Adam Smith'(10) 9. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (7) 10. My Turn at Bat, Williams
Flowered Crosses. The convention was also remarkable in other ways. Each of the nation's 107 dioceses had been invited to send, in addition to the regular delegations, one youth, one woman, and one member of other minority groups as nonvoting participants. The guests soon radicalized the convention, making the issues of racism and Viet Nam its dominant themes...
...always been his mania for mania. The mushy midsection of the human-behavior range has no interest for him, and ordinary psychosis not much more. What grips his imagination, and shakes it till splendid words fall out, is the tic of a human bomb. In one novel, a beautiful woman feeds for 20 years on the high-held hope that she will one day, somehow, be able to chop up her lover with a machete. In another, a man sets out, in more sinister fashion, to learn by heart every last scrap of information the world contains about cheese. Even...
...Woman was born in Ibsen's inkwell. When Nora slammed the door on hubby and the kiddies in the last scene of A Doll's House, wives all over the Western world began mentally packing their suitcases. The idea behind Nora's leaving was lofty. Woman was no longer to be a possession, a commodity, a glorified nursemaid, a kept dilettante on the sidelines of the world's imposing work. She would forge her own identity and earn something called "respect." The amusing thing about this, as G. K. Chesterton once pointed out, was that...
...offering witty cracks about himself, which he attributed to his contemporaries. One was supposedly by Oscar Wilde: "He has not an enemy in the world; and none of his friends like him." Another was attributed to his platonic lover, Mrs. Pat Campbell: "Give Shaw a beefsteak and no woman in London will be safe...