Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Very much in this year is slight, soft-spoken Donald Brooks, 34, who has given to middle-income womanhood the understated elegance hitherto associated with high-price high fashion. Last April the New York Drama Critics presented him with their annual award for his costumes for Richard Rodgers' No Strings. This week the Coty American Fashion Critics (75 top fashion editors) gave him their Winnie award (like an Oscar, only chic) for his fall collection...
...places is largely a byproduct of democracy; outside Britain, even royalty nowadays is generally free to choose and marry for love. Most of the reigning beauties also meet democracy's most demanding criterion of successful first-ladyship: each, in her way, embodies her country's ideal of womanhood. They are fond of outdoor life; they swim, ride horseback, play tennis or golf. They are enthusiastic and effective sponsors of charitable and cultural causes. Virtually without exception, they are chic, vivacious, quick-witted and warm. Above all, they are immense political and social assets to their husbands. Watching their...
...vigorous years, Miss Sarah Porter was described by a Yale professor as "the most magnificent example of symmetrical womanhood that I have ever known"-meaning, of course, that her spiritual and intellectual attainments were in agreeable balance. Daughter of the Congregational pastor in Farmington, Conn., and sister of Yale President (1871-86) Noah Porter, she was a formidable teacher who at 30 launched a school in her father's house, where she cultivated some 20 young ladies at $200 a year...
...school grew and grew. When she died in 1900, a Boston newspaper glowed that Miss Porter "gave to hundreds of the best born women of the land that poise and stability of character, that combination of learning and good manners which is the mark of the noblest American womanhood." Miss Porter's confers those qualities to this day, and it slipped out last week that the school has an application on file for 1972 or so from the first young lady of the land, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy...
...Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. This uncommonly good first novel tells of a Carolina country girl coming to womanhood...