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The life of Betty Trask (1893 - 1983): fiction, fame, and Frome
No full textThis piece ponders the many paradoxes that attach to the Frome author Betty Trask: a purveyor of middlebrow romances who pitches her tent in the territory of both Elizabeth Gaskell and Virginia Woolf; a writer who went global, at the hands of Mario Vargas Llosa, by virtue of being incorrigibly provincial
Born to blush unseen: Betty Trask in Frome
No full textBetty Trask (1893?–1983) is the very definition of a forgotten author. When her will left a king’s ransom to create a prize fund for first-time novelists, nobody knew that she had any connection with novel-writing whatever. Since then, over a hundred living novelists have drawn four-figure sums from the fund; but still not a single one of Trask’s own novels has been reissued. Mario Vargas Llosa, writing on Betty Trask four months after her death, was fascinated by a life so enveloped in obscurity as that of this “misteriosa filántropo de las letras inglesas” had been: a life “austera, discreta, poco menos que invisible.”
The basis of his fascination is also one of the most compelling justifications we have for recovering neglected writers’ lives. Trask, for Vargas Llosa, perfectly encapsulates what Don Quijote puts forward as the peculiar property of fiction: its ability to pierce the clouds of nonentity (or, in Virginia Woolf’s terms, the cotton wool of non-being) with rich imaginative life. Whether they are men of La Mancha or women of the Mendips, “a través de la ficción los seres humanos logran romper los límites en que viven encarcelados.
Letter from Mark E. Rivers, Jr., President, Watts Manufactoring Corporation, August 3, 1976
No full textRecomendation letter for Hideyuki Takamori from Mark E. Rivers, Jr., President of the Watts Manufacturing Company.The Hideyuki and Betty (Tanji) Takamori Collection contains photographs, correspondence, and official documents related to the Hideyuki and Betty (Tanji) Takamori. Images in the collection include family photographs from the United States and Japan, travel photographs from Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Disneyland, San Francisco, and Hawaii, graduation photographs of young women from the Fashion Center, and other photographs related to the lives of the Takamori family
Resume for Hideyuki Takamori
No full textResume for Hideyuki Takamori with job, military, educational, and personal information.The Hideyuki and Betty (Tanji) Takamori Collection contains photographs, correspondence, and official documents related to the Hideyuki and Betty (Tanji) Takamori. Images in the collection include family photographs from the United States and Japan, travel photographs from Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Disneyland, San Francisco, and Hawaii, graduation photographs of young women from the Fashion Center, and other photographs related to the lives of the Takamori family
Betty Crocker Versus Betty Friedan: Meanings of Wifehood Within a Postfeminist Era
No full text In this article, deploying Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and the fictional American icon Betty Crocker within a poststructural feminist analysis, the author analyzes a social science data set investigating how 18 contemporary wives think about wifehood. Crocker and Friedan are emblematic of the cultural DNA that make up wifehood: The mythical Betty Crocker represents the happy, traditional housewife of the 1950s, and Betty Friedan offers a critique of the happy, traditional housewife figure. Thinking about historical trends, in the 1950s to 1960s, femininity and families were rigidly prescribed and, thus, largely unquestioned. In the 21st century, with the influx of postfeminism, prescriptions for femininity and families are thought to be less rigid—but are they? Contemporary wives’ identity negotiations mapped onto both Betty Crocker and Betty Friedan but remained anchored in the Betty Crocker image. </jats:p
BETTY GLAD
No full textDr. Betty Glad, 82, died August 2, 2010. She enjoyed a truly distinguished career as a scholar of American politics and foreign policy. Betty was the Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of South Carolina. She was an exemplary scholar and an expert on the American presidency, U.S. foreign policy, and political leadership. She was the author of Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House; Charles Evans Hughes and the Illusions of Innocence; Key Pittman: The Tragedy of a Senate Insider; and, most recently, An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 2009). Betty was also editor or co-editor of The Psychological Dimensions of War, The Russian Transformation, and other books. In addition, she published dozens of articles, book chapters, and commentary. Her first book, Charles Evans Hughes, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.</jats:p
Letter from Errol P. Lizana, Watts Manufactoring Corporation, July 23, 1976
No full textRecomendation letter for Hide (Hideyuki) Takamori from Errol P. Lizana, Vice President from Watts Manufactoring Corporation.The Hideyuki and Betty (Tanji) Takamori Collection contains photographs, correspondence, and official documents related to the Hideyuki and Betty (Tanji) Takamori. Images in the collection include family photographs from the United States and Japan, travel photographs from Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Disneyland, San Francisco, and Hawaii, graduation photographs of young women from the Fashion Center, and other photographs related to the lives of the Takamori family
Betty Blues
No full textLittle Rice Duck has built himself quite the reputation around the West Wood, playing his trumpet in bars with their smoky, sweaty ambiance, tequila sunrises, and jazz. All he needs is that Betty character, one bitch bathing in expensive champagne. But like the champagne, he’d much prefer she just stay chilled. In this graphic novel, the acclaimed author brings together his love for music and comics
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens: CoNPS update
No full text17th annual symposium held virtually from several locations and Colorado on September 18, 2020
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