Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until about three years ago, Harvard had its choice of graduates in the top third of every major women's college, Wessel explained. But then the big industrial companies suddenly realized the talents of college girls and began to hire them...
Through the night the dormitory lights burned, and from them dead bugs fell to the three-piece mattresses below. The women were in distant tents. Married couples could assure meeting in the confusion of the following day only by arranging a time and place in advance. The ultimate result was hardly the intellectual repartee in a Vienna winecellar for which Americans had hoped...
...tragedies of our time is that the minister is both overworked and unemployed; overworked in a multitude of tasks that do not have the slightest connection with religion, and unemployed in the serious concerns and exacting labors of maintaining a disciplined spiritual life among mature men and women. It is a scandal of modern Protestantism that young men called to the high venture of the Christian way . . . are graduated into churches where the magnitude of their vocation is macerated . . . by the pressure of the petty practices of so-called parish progress...
...leads are not always so fruitful. Following one tip, Oster drove to St. Martinsville, where a fabulously gifted and ancient crone was supposed to live. Oster found not one, but two old women waiting for him on the front porch of a house that had a statue of the Virgin in the front yard and an oil well in the back. Neither of the old girls could sing a note. On the other hand, Oster has found that many a performer can be coaxed to song with a little priming. In French and Cajun settlements, he tries to build...
Mary Shelley came by her headstrong ways naturally. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a brilliant champion of women's rights and social revolution. Her father, William Godwin, was also one of the morning stars of reason and reform in the last years of the 18th century. Both advocated free love and reluctantly ignored their teaching to marry just five months before their daughter's birth. Yet from the day of her elopement, Mary Shelley suffered continual persecution not only from Shelley's family, but also from her own father, whose contempt for convention stopped abruptly...