Word: catting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAT'S PAJAMAS & WITCH'S MILK, by Peter De Vries. In these two grotesquely humorous novellas, a gifted, discontented man works hard at being a failure, and a gentle, down-at-heart woman struggles with domestic disaster...
...public-service messages that are stirring the TV air and, at times, the American conscience. Urban America Inc has a commercial showing a ghetto child who calls, "Here, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty. Nice kitty." The camera discovers a rat. Voiceover: "If your child mistook a rat for a cat, how would you feel? Our cities need help, your help. If you think there's nothing you can do to help, think harder...
...CAT'S PAJAMAS & WITCH'S MILK by Peter De Vries. 303 pages. Little, Brown...
According to taste, Tillie's matrimonial ordeal in Witch's Milk will seem touching, crazily unconvincing, or hopelessly sentimental. But read back to back with The Cat's Pajamas, it removes all doubt about De Vries' allegiance to domestic commitment, however grotesque. In Hank Tattersall's swinging world, everything is possible, therefore nothing is binding. Like Pete Seltzer, Hank, too, talks about outrageous products. But he does so only in ironic mockery of himself and the commercial world. By contrast, Seltzer's crazy products are mainly dreamed up as a kind of cheerful game...
While Annabel decides how to deal with her career and with Billy, the author toys with her conscience like a sadistic cat. Spark's portrayal of human venality is ruthless. First, Annabel calls a press conference-where she is surrounded by weeping neighbors-to deny that her husband intended suicide in the first place. Like a small child, she tries out little lies and daydreams, but she reassures no one but herself that the truth can be contained. The author observes it all, and from the crudest angle...