Word: housework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolutionaries in their attitudes toward their parents and the education they are getting. Far from feeling alienated, they speak of their fathers and mothers with deep affection. Eric Priestley is constantly pained by the thought that his 65-year-old mother, who has a bad heart, still does housework for other people and that his father, 63, who has hardening of the arteries as well as a bad heart, must still mow lawns to keep a rented roof over their heads. Patricia Cabbell, 25, who clerks at Federal City College for 18 hours a week while studying nursing, is determined...
...constant siege of reporters has added to the strain. "I'm just not getting any housework done," Mrs. Kopechne complained. In a way, though, the press does help. "You people have kept us on our toes," she said. "Every once in a while, we get angry and we get mad, and this mad anger we wake up with sustains us through the day. We've reached a breaking point many times, but I'm controlling myself for my husband and he's controlling himself for me. It's holding us together." The worst time...
...jokes-another rich vein of Legmanian source material-invariably conceal the fear of inadequacy or impotence behind outrageous boasts: First woman: "Did you hear about the woman who had quadruplets? I understand that only happens once every 60,000 times." Second woman: "My goodness, when does she get her housework done?" Although the characters are women, the perspective is male; as Legman notes, women never compose dirty jokes but are nearly always the butt of them. The alleged insatiability of the female also runs as an undercurrent through that story-providing a way for the male who is worried about...
...Boulogne uses his hospital room, after seven months, to celebrate his private Mass and work on his book on St. Thomas Aquinas. DeBakey's patient, William C. Carroll, plays pitch-and-putt golf in Arizona. A Shumway patient, Mrs. Virginia Asche, is at home and doing her own housework three months after the transplant...
...Harvard next winter. He has settled into a small white cottage in suburban Ottawa, where he intends to spend his days savoring his wife's home cooking ("It's fantastic") and chasing down cobwebs. "We wanted a smallish house," he says, "so that I could do the housework...