Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used from the beginning, of the Eternal Mother sitting in a shaft of light. Over the frame are the words "Out of the cradle, endlessly rocking ... ever bringing the same joys and sorrows ... "Griffith's return to this image is anti-classical, a return to the central subject, womanhood, which he never cared or managed to define. The image itself-hermetic anti-analytical-shows him at his most sentimental and romantic. The material and the style of Intolerance come together in a peculiar expressive balance...
...threatened to take the matter before the House of Commons and treat it as an affront to British maidenhood. "A British girl," he thundered, "is perfectly capable of making her own dates-and so are American men." The Sunday Times chided: "There are visions of the flower of English womanhood being sold into lusty American servitude for the benefit of our sordid balance of payments. Poor old BOAC cannot win." Nonetheless, the airline fought on. "We're only offering them dates," spokesmen insisted, "not promising marriage...
CHRISTABEL AND THE RUBICON is a whacky comedy by H. J. Moorman about a young girl beset by all the problems of young womanhood today - including the older man, the boy next door, and a bewildered father at the other end of the generation gap. Olney, Md., Aug. 26-Sept...
...been quite funny (as, even in this one, it is) except for the fact that McKay's every entrance disturbed the production's then-prevailing mood. Ann Sachs, who, as the tutor's adolescent lover Vera, has a role (that of a girl, wounded by love, who hardens into womanhood) similar to that she played in The Hostage. As a rural character she is fine, fresh native, though perhaps too given to sometimes enthusiastic "mugging," but, in this particular play, the role demands more of a sophisticated veneer. Vera should display more of her country education; and, with such sophistication...
Laing's formula for human fulfillment--the discovery of whole experience through voyages into inner space--is closely related to qualities which two modern psychological thinkers have identified as feminine. Erik Erikson, in "Womanhood and the Inner Space," organizes female identity around the concept of a productive inner space. He attributes to women and artistically gifted men an inner life, a sensitive indwelling and inwardness. Robert Lifton in "Women as Knower" attributes to women an insight which is related to their close identification with organic life and "whole experience," organic knowledge is essentially phenomenological, resolving an awareness of the selfprocess...