Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prominence is traumatically frustrated, or when pleasing fantasies of rank are shaken by unwitting confrontations with reality, the Jacob-Joseph complexes may become aggravated, most typically in the freshmen or senior year, into the more severe Jonah complex. Here the undergraduate feels himself engulfed in helplessness. He sleeps through breakfast, but goes to dinner early so he may watch T.V. afterwards in his house common room. Directionless, he rarely studies, but thinks about studying perpetually. If he is a senior, he lacks a thesis topic. Jonah arrived in his predicament through running away. So does his namesake. The whale...
...opening scene is a country house where Edward, an essayist, and Flora, his wife, are having breakfast. After desultory chatter about flowers and a duel with a wasp, their attention turns to an old matchseller standing by the back gate. The man disturbs Edward, but Flora finds him faintly attractive. Both are alternately fascinated and repelled by him. Edward interrogates him, insults him, soliloquizes on youthful glories now defunct. Flora too interviews him, trying to find out why she feels drawn to him. Gradually it becomes evident that the couple knows the old man intimately, either in memory...
Steaks for Breakfast. There are compensations, to be sure. The campaign reporter's creature comforts are looked after with a nanny's loving care. Shepherded by working staffs from the Republican or Democratic Committee, his luggage travels unassisted from airport to hotel-where it is often deposited in the wrong room. The food looks delicious, at least at first; but now, even the reporters chasing Humphrey blanch at the sight of yet another dinner steak. Newsmen with Johnson get steak for breakfast-and Bloody Marys before breakfast if they desire. In the affluent society, the rubber chicken...
...Judging by its premiere, Many Happy Returns is the season's best new show. As is generally the case with successful TV series, it is the principal actor who makes the difference. In this case, it is John McGiver, the balding fellow who waited on Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's and whose concise, precise portrayals have lightened other films from Love in the Afternoon to The Manchurian Candidate. Now he's an employee of a department store whose career depends on his ability to persuade people to keep merchandise they are trying to return. Urbanely...
...gentleman of leisure, who wishes to breakfast regularly at noon without eliminating classes from his life, faces a few problems. The omnipresent Mr.-------- cooperates with Miss----------- in giving Greek Hhf, Greek Prose Composition. Meeting on Tuesday at 2 p.m. it leaves seven mornings and six afternoons a week uncluttered. And more cultural vacuums can be filled on Thursday in Celtic 227 which deals in poetry of the Gogynfeirdd...