Word: nursemaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 "a million women announced their intention to be free and promptly began taking...
...again, this time to a more accommodating woman. In his later years, he suffered fits of violent madness; at 59, he died of heart failure. In a somewhat facile analysis, the biographer suggests that Sacher-Masoch's depravity may have been caused by a dominant mother, a dominant nursemaid and a dominant aunt. This could explain why he was so upset when he heard that Dr. Krafft-Ebing had singled him out for inclusion in his Psychopathia Sexualis and coined the term masochism. After all, Masoch was his mother's family name, and he was concerned that...
However, Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck of Urban Government, attacked the "whole conceptual scheme of translating the Panama situation to Boston. "You don't have to be a left-wing nursemaid," he told his fellow-panelists. He classified the Barrio Group's work as "a fashionable game for certain Harvard students to play." Even Lodge's work warranted his saying that "maybe the Panamanians should be left to figure out their own political destiny...
...humor, she bounces freely from Latin to folk, Hawaiian to Dixieland, but is most effective in numbers with a hint of country twang. An attractive divorcee, she has a large following among the men, to whom she plays as deftly as she plays the piano. She can be either nursemaid or sedup-tress, gauging her attack by "the different stages of drink." Says she: "If they're looking at me, I try to entertain. If they're occupied with themselves, I just sit back and sort of mess around." - Nappy Gagno, at Boston's Merry-Go-Round...
Fielding displays a spurious heartiness that can be depressing, and occasionally he may overplay the nursemaid bit. But the heart of Fielding's guidebook is his personal advice on where to eat, sleep, drink and be merry. It is current (this year's book contains 125,000 lines of revisions), caustic, and in reliable taste. Maxim's (ranked by Michelin as one of France's twelve*** restaurants) has been off Fielding's list since the death of Maitre d'hótel Albert Blaser in 1959, and he attacks Chez Denis (*) for serving...