Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts
Monday, May 5, 2025

Subverting the Cinderella Story and Assumptions About the 1950s in "The Solid Gold Cadillac"

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  The Solid Gold Cadillac  is a 1956 comedy film starring Judy Holliday (pictured in the center of the photo above) as the irrepressible sma...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Discovering Buckminster Fuller on Long Island

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While I may have heard of Buckminster (more commonly known as Bucky) Fuller in the distant past, what made me grow curious about him was a v...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

The Marriage Plot: Expectations for Novel Ending Must Be Met

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Austenian literary paradigm demands that the heroine get her man. Pride and Prejudice Tote ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The marriage of opposites

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Shakespeare begins Sonnet 116 with the declaration, " Let me not to the marriage of true minds/  Admit impediments. " In real lif...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Wife for sale in literature and real life

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I'm currently in the middle of  Jane Austen's England by the husband and wife team of  Roya and Lesley Adkins. It's history ma...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Happiness is

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Do you find happiness surrounded by the throngs of people and noise in a club?  Or do you find in silent contemplation of the beauty nature?...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Perspectives on Introversion (this is a long post)

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Within the space of a number of weeks, I read  three books on introverts. I started with most recent and most publicized within that categor...
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