Word: coevals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MORE and more older men refuse to be resigned. Despite today's much-heralded split between generations, which should guarantee coeval marriages, the number of old-young alliances may be increasing. Certainly their visibility is. As May arrives, December seems closer than ever...
...lost youth. Sexually, at least, he may be sadly mistaken. Many cases indicate that while a man's potency can be dramatically stimulated for a few months by an affair with a younger woman, he will usually revert to the same pattern he had maintained with his coeval wife. According to Sociologist Clark Vincent, on the other hand, there is more likelihood of serious differences in sexual appetite among coevals than among May-December couples. Vincent's theory, however, has yet to be verified...
...visibility of the actor, by making him much more of a group figure, an inter-actor-the difference, as it were, between Greek sculpture and Egyptian bas-relief. Similarly, the playwright in Brook's hands has been reduced to a sort of coauthor. Brook supplies, or imposes, a coeval text of ritualistic sounds and gestures that often competes with the playwright's lines. At its worst, this method generates intensity without illumination. At its best, it taps sources of visceral theatrical vitality...
...suggest that homosexuality is a serious (but often curable) neurosis that attacks the biological basis of life itself. "I can't help the way I am," says one of the sodomites in this movie. "Nature played me a dirty trick." And the scriptwriters, whose psychiatric information is clearly coeval with the statute they dispute, accept this sick-silly self-delusion as a medical fact...
...impressed by Author Fifield's rendering of the trancelike intensity with which the countess' conscious mind pearl-dives into her unconscious. Author Fifield speculates intriguingly on religious and metaphysical questions. Does the ability to foretell a future event presuppose predestination? Are times past, present and future coeval? These questions are more fully developed than the novel's characters, who seem to exist like cards in a deck, merely to take plot tricks...