Word: children
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular stereotype of the faculty wife, teapot in hand, is not wrong, it is simply not inclusive. While Mrs. Owen may find it indispensible to the running of Winthrop House, Mrs. Bundy may have her teapot on the top shelf, out of the reach of her four small children, and Mrs. Schlesinger Jr. may use hers for a still life. Though the University affects all faculty wives its impact varies. The wives of the Masters, department chairmen, and administrative officials have a good deal "thrust upon them." A majority of the responsibility for hostessing newcomers' teas, "visiting firemen's" dinners...
...their own. Faculty wives have taught at Milton (Mrs. Yeager and Mrs. George Snyder), presided over the League of Women Voters (Mrs. Owen and Mrs. Feinsod), worked at the polls or for the C.C.A. (Mrs. Bundy), practiced Medicine and law, painted and sung. They have written novels and children's stories, been professional photographers and served as Radcliffe trustees. Some of them sew, Mrs. Friederich having distinguished herself among the Faculty wives by making a man's jacket. Delmar Leighton's wife, knowing Cambridge well, works for a real estate agency in the Square. Mrs. Forbes, one time Assistant Director...
...training to a gainful and useful purpose. It is a real privilege to work. One must be able to afford it financially--the cost of housekeepers and the income tax set up make this difficult--and also, one must be sure that one's home and children are not being slighted. I have to count on really professional help at home...
...Deknatel has pointed out, a lot of what the Faculty wife does depends upon what she has to do at home, rather than on her husband's position, and this was echoed by Mrs. Bundy's remark about "maintenance." With four small children, not all yet of school age, a good proportion of Mrs. Bundy's time is devoted to raising children and keeping house. In addition, however, Mrs. Bundy has found time to get over to the Radcliffe library to study Spanish in preparation for a trip to South America which she and her husband will be making...
...that has the lived-with, lived-through intensity of a major novel. Never before have people so painfully close to Joyce stepped so personably out of the shadow of his reputation. There is his father John, a barroom wit and tosspot, would-be singer and doctor, who sired ten children and saddled his brood with eleven mortgages. There is Joyce's wife Nora, a Galway girl with a tart tongue and no head for "that chop suey he's writing," as she once said of Finnegans Wake. There is Brother Stanislaus, the plodding provident ant in Joyce...