Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dingy hideouts in the suburbs. There is a public outcry from conservative Burmese (echoed by the opportunistic pro-Communist press) against such Western innovations as rock 'n' roll ("dance of mad persons with chronic diarrhea"). Western ballroom dancing ( "couple-rubbing exhibitions" ) and beauty contests ("degradation of Burmese womanhood"). Last month the government destroyed opium crops in a northern district, warned that other opium growers in the Kachin and Shan states would be the next to suffer...
...beautiful duchess retired from society, at 34, to mourn alone on the Alba estate, the painter apparently joined her. His great portrait of 1797, now hanging at the Hispanic Society Museum in Manhattan, is the clue. A vital and imperious creature at the peak of womanhood, she stands dressed in mourning, dramatically pointing to the sand by her toes. On her pointing finger is a ring inscribed with Goya's name. On her middle finger is another ring inscribed with the duke's. She points to something written in the sand, facing her, and that something has always...
...been tamed by Writer-Promoter Ned Buntline, and was playing in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show ("Fear not, fair maid, you are safe at last with Wild Bill, who is ever ready to risk his life, and die if need be, in defense of helpless womanhood"). But the legend of the two-gun terror lingered on, and in 1902, when Owen Wister published The Virginian, the legend "came from the woodshed into the parlor...
...College is simply too small to fulfill its great responsibilities to young womanhood in this country," Jordan claimed, citing the quality of applicants for admission in the last six years as the decisive factor in his conclusion. He said that "Radcliffe has no moral right to limit undergraduate enrollments to the present 1,097 under present circumstances and pressures...
...hothouse existence, the author flinches nearly as much as she: the event is seen from the outside, and the reader cannot know if Mrs. Bridge feels any more deeply than the cliches she utters. He is a gentler observer than Philip Wylie, but Connell's conclusions about U.S. womanhood may not be too different. He has one of his suburban matrons passionately ask another: "Have you ever felt like those people in the Grimm fairy tale-the ones who were all hollowed out in the back...