Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHAMADE by Francoise Sagan. 156 pages. Button...
Told by Price that he must be on hand at 11:55 p.m. to press a button, Brose instantly bridles: "Didn't you tell me it was an easy job?" Price is all for throwing this cheeky beggar out, but Brose won't buy it: "I'll get you, don't you worry. Some night when you're going for your bus. Scuffle, then clunk. There won't be much blood to speak of, just an agony and an aching, and not being able to drag yourself along the wet pavement...
...Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect. Apart from turning Harold Pinter upside down and dispelling all the potential menace in laughter, Playwright Livings achieves one added distinction: he has done an anatomy of modern mass man. As the stereotype has it, this is the man who will be reduced to electronic button pushing and social homogeneity, tutored to spend his leisure time with Shakespeare and symphonies. Brose shows no such inclinations. Industrial technology is a fascinating toy to him, and he is the contented child of pop culture; yet he has a curious, steely desire to think for himself. The old sanctions...
...train reached Bumpkinsville. The provincialism of Gopher Prairie and booster clubs, of Mencken's "booboisie" and Lewis' Babbittry, which believed that the outside world began at the end of Main Street and thought of Dante as "that Dago poet," is as dead as the America of button shoes and chicken every Sunday...
...their Judaism and their allegiance to it. They also get drawn into a fierce proxy fight for Mama's bank account, and one of the characters even drifts behind the Iron Curtain for a little daring-do. Longstreet, who has written several screenplays and a hit musical (High Button Shoes) as well as eight other novels, is an old hand at story spinning. The pattern here is familiar, but it is a nice piece of goods all the same...