Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick deploys all the dazzling devices of the space age in a cosmic parable of the history and future...
...Billy Barty, one of the few who conform to the popular misconception that most midgets are in show business. Barty is, and has done well.* Now 43, Barty stands 3 ft. 9 in. He arrived with Wife Shirley, 4 ft. 3 in., and their daughter Lori, who at age five measures 3 ft. 1 in. Anthropometrists say Lori probably will never top 4 ft. 7 in., so the Little People classify her as "Little Little...
Less than Swiftian (though not without an occasional flicker of appeal) are Shapiro's modest proposals, which include raising the minimum age for drivers' licenses to at least 30, denying foreign travel to children unless granted as a privilege from their school, putting dissidents on reservations, and destroying all concepts of adolescence. He cannot be serious; yet one pokes vainly through Shapiro's overcooked simplifications for a scrap of wit or irony. Finding none, the reader concludes that To Abolish Children is little more than a late-middle-age temper tantrum...
...member of the Silent Generation that came of age in the '50s, Author Crews knows how to cool a hot issue. As a professor of English, he seems to side with Shakespeare: "Youth's a stuff will not endure...
...brass") and poetry ("Out in the gull-clawed air, New Year blue, the tide crawling creamily in, Enderby felt better.") become a tedious camouflage instead of a clear glass over the subject, the criterion of truly good style. Burgess, as defensive or more as any writer in the television age, seems to be flaunting his verbal facility so as to lure the reader into the psychic depths beneath the words. Enderby is programmed for the sophisticated, well-in-formed laffseekers of the New Reading Public...