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...also increasingly symbol-minded-provided the symbols do not excite the mental so much as the sentimental faculties ("It isn't enough that boy meets girl," one playwright complained. "Now they want to know what he metaphor"). They also have a kindly feeling of superiority for an old maid-if she isn't too old. And everybody loves a cowboy picture...
...LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE, by Brian Moore. The painfully etched life of an old maid as she moves from helplessness to hopelessness in Belfast, Ireland. Dreary and appalling, but so bitterly true that Novelist Moore achieves a small mas terpiece of human defeat...
...daughter of a Hollywood producer: "Once upon a time there was a poor family. The mother was poor. The daddy was poor. The children were poor. The butler was poor. The chauffeur was poor. The maid was poor. The gardener was poor. Everybody was poor...
...Built-in Maid Service." Next day Ike and Mamie motored across Washington to the CBS television studios, there sat down in a living room set to chat about campaign issues with seven ladies chosen by G.O.P. Assistant Chairman Bertha Adkins. The special show had been geared for women voters; nudging The Big Payoff from its daily spot, Ike and his questioners aimed at women across the nation. The questions were routine-what about the draft, the cost of living, the chance of another depression? But Ike caught the spirit of the occasion, with easy grace enjoyed a 29-minute parlor...
...town of Borgetto knows chaos aplenty when the summer droughts end and the mountain waters, slimy and grey, go roiling and boiling over the cobbles of its main street, the Way of the Deluge, threatening homes and crops alike. But whatever else may suffer in Borgetto, honor-particularly a maid's honoris sacrosanct. No man may fall victim to the lure of dark eyes in a Sicilian village without the certainty of reaping his reward in death or marriage, and the maiden who talks with a man on the street from her chamber window and then lets him stroll...