Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such overexposure might well decrease, not increase, the public use of obscenity. No one throws a bomb that has no bang. Take the example of Esquire, which published Norman Mailer's scatological novel An American Dream five years ago (but asked Novelist Bernard Malamud last fall to change two obscene phrases in a short story; he refused, and the Atlantic printed the story and the two phrases). "We're using four-letter words less and less just because they've surfaced," says Editor Harold Hayes. "They're losing their force." This spring he plans to publish...
...children by his second wife. Teb Sharmat, a lively farmer in the Caucasus, took a third wife-who was 50-when he was in his 90s. He explained that he did not want to get out of the habit. Some time before he died at 94, Bernard Berenson confided to his diary: "Only in what might be called my old age have I become aware of sex and the animal in woman." William Butler Yeats, who finally married at 52, was well into his 70s before he began trumpeting the raw sexuality of The Wild Old Wicked Man. Victor Hugo...
...graduation ceremony, which included students from the IBM-sponsored academy nearby, was a demonstration of the program's potential. Patricia Bernard, 18, addressed the school's sponsors and teachers in her invocation: "We've been given the impression that you all had only one big dream-a dream to help those of us who had almost given up hope. You boosted our morale and gave many of us the strength we needed to gain back our willpower to learn and our anxiety to make something of ourselves. I hope that each and every one of us graduating...
...ceremony, Pat Bernard offered a brief benediction: "Somewhere there's a place for us. I hope that each of us will go out and hold our heads erect...
...pubs of mid-19th century England that wandering singers first came to be called buskers.* They were then best known for their obscene songs, but they gained respectability as they moved to the sidewalks and brought along their own touch of music-hall gaiety. George Bernard Shaw loved them. So did Actor Charles Laughton, who used to gather a group around him in their favorite pub, the Black Swan, and buy them sandwiches and a barrel of beer. Buskers basically are drifters, as Accordionist Tony Turco admits: "You have got to be a performer or else you are nothing...