Word: saltiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author sees this setting as a sorry patriarchy of ineffectual husbands and resentful wives. "The day after your wedding, when your mother cuts your hair off, that's your life falling on the floor," a matron tells a bride-to-be. Nattel's women get not only the saltiest lines but also the feistiest roles. Childless Hanna-Leah, the butcher's wife, is freed from disappointment by an ecstatic vision and demands that her husband share the housework. Faygela, poet-mother of five, travels to Warsaw, where she encounters a circle of secular Jewish intellectuals and renounces Yiddish...
...unlikely that America's saltiest president had much to do with Radcliffe College. But today, a week before University of Minnesota professor Barbara J. Nelson assumes the newly-created post of second-in-command and presidential stand-in at Harvard's appendix, it's worth remembering Johnson's words...