Word: books
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...more possible than a return to the simpler times before feminism. By the early 1980s, more imaginative women in the movement began to speak of a second phase that would be quite different from the first. Friedan, as usual, was out front. In her 1981 book The Second Stage, she called on her feminist sisters to go beyond "sexual politics" that cast man as the enemy and denied women's "roots and life connection in the family." The movement must change its focus, she argued, from succeeding in a man's world on a man's terms to achieving...
Death's Jest-Book, Beddoes' most well-known work, is a macabre tale of ghosts and murder, Ashbery said...
Rosenthal--a past president of the Association of University Presses and a current member of the Association of American Publishers board-- created several professional book clubs duringhis career, including the Library of Science andReader's Subscription. The Harvard Medical SchoolHealth Letter, with over 300,000 subscribers, andthe new Harvard Education Letter are amongRosenthal's recent accomplishments...
This adaptations-only rule has been in full force as five song-and-dance spectaculars in rapid succession have reached the Broadway stage. Grand Hotel, which opened last week, and Meet Me in St. Louis are influenced by films that were in turn based on books. Gypsy, which also opened last week, stars Tyne Daly of TV's Cagney & Lacey in a revival drawn from the memoirs of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. Prince of Central Park, which quickly closed, derived from a book that had also prompted a made-for-TV movie. Brecht's own The Threepenny Opera, featuring rock...
...nearly 150 years, ever since a women's magazine called Godey's Lady's Book began championing the cause of an annual day of Thanksgiving, the topic has been drowning in a syrupy sea of treacle. Almost every Thanksgiving cliche was in place by the mid-19th century: snow-thatched New England farmhouses, menus of turkey and cranberry sauce, families bowing their heads in grateful prayer, and wayward children dramatically returning home for the occasion. Even Abraham Lincoln in ushering in the modern national Thanksgiving holiday could not rise above what a latter-day President might call "the banality mode...