Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN a review copy of the newest Tom Wolfe book, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, arrived here at 14 Plympton Street a few weeks ago, Mike was the first to get his hands on it. Though only momentarily. Fresh from an especially argumentative seminar, I hit the building a few minutes later, immediately noticed the book, headed over to claim possession...
...when a "hip," young social writer could say of a very Establishment Beverly Hills party, "There was nothing radically chic about the Hudsons' last night. The women all wore bras, the gay libbers stayed home on Hollywood Boulevard, and few blacks were even present. It was just a fun party, but it was all the better...
...when we ourselves would get together, only for one of the more self-styled radicals in the group to proclaim, "At least, there's nothing chic about...
...what it was really like a heartbeat away from the President. Gloria Steinem brings a tape recorder to the Harvard Business School, listens to all the women students wailing, and plays it back to New York magazine. And Carrie Snodgress dissects her marital crisis with a dash of liberal chic for every audience of The Diary of a Mad Housewife...
...Joyce Carol Oates is not a women's liberationist. She is not as groovy as Gloria Steinem, nor as chic as Carrie Snodgress. You can't rip her books off the Coop's feminist display table and liberate your grandmother for Chanukah. But The Wheel of love. Oates' latest collection of short stories, is probably the most powerful and harrowing compilation of female confessionals shared in a long time...