Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plaine des Jarres promised its own answer at noon the next day. The loyal troops surrounding them gave their future brothers-in-arms food and water, fraternized openly. Vigilance relaxed. And when the loyal troops awoke next morning, they found the Reds had decamped during the night, taking their women and children with them...
Schlesinger is also on the committee of five to pick a successor for President Jordan, and his special interest at the moment is the Women's Archives at Radcliffe where he is Chairman of the Advisory Board...
...northern Italy. Stepping out into the clamorous street, Hussar Colonel Angelo Pardi, youthful hero of Jean Giono's new novel, suddenly saw his fellow patriots like actors on a stage-officers strutting by, each with "a finger to his mustache as if to the trigger of a gun"; women's handkerchiefs fluttering from every balcony; grand carriages pulling aside to allow a princess in "working-class petticoats" to lead past a troop of volunteers. And Angelo himself was an actor in the play-without knowing it. Men, argues French Author Giono, can achieve real ends only by being...
...long silence, it is right," wrote Yeats in a poem about the gulf between the sexes. Author Janeway's novel deals with the same subject, but unfortunately it consists of speech after long speech. Most of the talk is mournful, and most of it is carried on by women. There are men in the novel, who say "what the hell" quite often, but they are neither very important nor very real. They are the book's furniture, and when one of them stabs himself, the reader is merely baffled, as if a sofa had suddenly stood...
...willful stage. Should she have deserted her husband to run off with worthless Gerald? Should she have abandoned her illegitimate daughter to be brought up by a Belgian family? No, evidently, to the second question; the girl grew up to become the mistress of two German officers, and the women of the Resistance shaved off her hair. But a fierce, unfazed yes to the first; although life is unpleasant, it must be met squarely. At novel's end, the willowy girl courageously casts aside thoughts of her anguished lover and suicidal husband and stands alone, buttressed only by health...