Word: everywoman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...initiate this interest in women who are old enough to remember Eisenhower and Stevenson, or who still savor the image of Simone Signoret, everywoman's Bogart, in a trenchcoat, dangling a cigarette, in Room at the Top. Rather, a series of changes in women themselves-the way they run their lives, the way they see themselves-seems to have caused the response in men. Feminism has had much to do with it, though not always directly. All kinds of eddies and crosscurrents have swirled around the practice and politics of sex in the past ten years. A feminist leader...
Retired Bishop William Moody's remarks concerning the ordination of women priests in the Episcopal Church [Oct. 6] should be equated with an obscene phone call to Everywoman...
...household and raise a family, often with little or no help from her hus band; yet, at the same time she is called upon to make speeches and win votes for her husband. She must be the model of purity and probity at home, but she must be Everywoman outside, with a ready smile and a cheerful word for all the importuning bores on the campaign trail. Writes Ellen Proxmire: "She is first and always a mother, a cook, a chauffeur, a seamstress and a homemaker, but she is also an adviser, a social secretary, a campaigner and even...
This brings us back to that old puzzler, the "very difficult" problem of ethics. In the end that is what Wedding in Blood is all about. Audran and Piccolo are not just common lovers, they are the bourgeois world's version of Everywoman and Everyman. They are the passionate living in a passionless world. They want to be alive, to be rewarded, to be fulfilled--they want to be everything the great mass of desperates are not. Very difficult indeed. Certainly a problem that you can't run away from...
...powers of candlelight have long been part of Everywoman's arsenal. Beauty or not, she always looks loveliest in the warm glow thrown off by wax tapers gleaming over a banquet table or on a banquette in a quiet bistro. Largely because of this candelabracadabra, candles continued to sell at a respectable pace long after the rural-electrification program brought light bulbs into the most remote corners of the U.S. In recent months, however, Americans have gone on a candle-buying spree, spurred on by necessity, a changing national mood and by new candle shops stocked with imaginatively shaped...