Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women are a 35-year-old mother and her 18-year-old daughter. Cesira is a widowed shopkeeper whose sole strength is her daughter's need of her. Rosetta's convent education has scarcely prepared the girl for a world in which the bombers seem almost to have crowded God out of the heavens. When the bombing of Rome appears imminent, the two women flee southeast to the mountain fastnesses where Cesira was born. The return of the native proves harsh...
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...just after the Anschluss, the Schells moved to Switzerland and rented the Zurich villa where Richard Wagner had worked on Tristan und Isolde. Maria was packed off to a convent school at Colmar in Alsace. At 15, she begged her father to let her study dramatics, but papa was an unsuccessful playwright as well as a practical Swiss, and he laid down the law: business school. Maria took a typing course and a job wrapping books in a mail-order house. Salary: about $11.50 a month. It was grim, but it did not last long...
...specialty store with annual sales volume of about $5,000,000. She succeeds Ben Willingham, General Shoe vice president on temporary loan to Bendel, who will remain as director. Tall (5 ft. 6 in.), svelte (no Ibs.) and unmarried, Jerry Stutz was educated in Chicago's St. Scholastica convent school, won a dramatics scholarship to Mundelein College, where she switched to journalism, spent her spare time modeling for Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. After graduation she became assistant to the public-relations director of Chicago's fashion industry, in 1947 joined Glamour magazine, where she developed...
...king and court of Shakespeare's Elsinore, argues Author West, represent all governments, all men. Nobody has clean hands. Ophelia is usually presented on the stage as a convent-type sweetie who has a nervous breakdown; in fact she is just "a disreputable young woman," a docile pawn in her father's plot to match her with Eligible Bachelor Hamlet. "No line in the play suggests that she felt either passion or affection for him." Even the ghost of Hamlet's father is tainted, as Author West sees it: he is the voice of the past...