Word: adulthood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother and masochism, about sister and sadism. They delightedly told of airline pilots' throwing out a few passengers to lighten the load, of a graduate school for dope addicts, of parents so loving that they always "got upset if anyone else made me cry." They attacked motherhood, childhood, adulthood, sainthood. And in perhaps a dozen nightclubs across the country-from Manhattan's Den to Chicago's Mr. Kelly's to San Francisco's hungry i-audiences paid stiff prices to soak it up. For the "sick" comedians, life's complexion has never looked...
...Americans, and the other by Christopher Isherwood, the British author (Prater Violet) who became one. The first is worth noting because of the surprisingly naive notions of its adult author, the second because it marks the jumping-off point in a talented young writer's abrupt leap to adulthood...
...physician rages against God; a girl he loved when they were both children died before she reached adulthood.* The plot devices through which he is brought back to religion are soapy and soporific; it is enough to mention that Lucanus pays a call at the imperial court in Rome, where the Empress Julia, rouge-breasted and panting, urges him to orgy. But at the last minute, Lucanus begs off. whereupon nasty old Emperor Tiberius realizes that he is the first decent man to show up in Rome for years and gives Lucanus a dandy ring...
Also--and residents in Winthrop's J-entry be warned--he has assembled a hi-fi set of amazing amplitude, easily capable of penetrating fire-doors, plaster walls, bathrooms and closets. And when he buys another tuner the set will achieve true stereo adulthood. "I love music, and have always been a follower of the B.S.O. And the Owens have even introduced to me the glory that is jazz...
...most conspicuous U.S. body manipulator, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley, says Birdwhistell, "is most successful with the two-to-four-year-olds, and 12-to-14-year-olds, because he joins them in a particular kind of mockery of serious adulthood. Presley's wiggles seem almost an imitation of an imitation of being sexy. That's why so many in the audience laugh and puritans react so violently. Presley is making a mockery of something they regard seriously...