Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also reported at the time that Watson had imposed the ban because of the complaints of a prominent Boston woman who objected to her daughter traveling overnight on the bus with a member of the band...
Last year the Administration barred dates from traveling on the Band bus to away football games, reportedly because a proper Bostonian, feminine variety, was alarmed that her daughter had spend the night traveling with unruly bands-men. Early this fall the Band was warned about its jibes at the Radcliffe House system, apparently because some stuffy Corporation member thought them in poor taste...
Certainly Bergman has the makings of an excellent comedy. Working from the Irish proverb, "A woman's chastity is a sty in the eye of the Devil," he develops the story of a devil plagued with a sore eye, which his advisors attribute to a Swedish vicar's careful daughter. The arch fiend considers his resources and finally decides Don Juan is the man to remedy the situation...
...devil dispatches him to the surface to relieve the girl of her virtue. The don is accompanied by his manservant, Pablo, and an assistant demon to keep everyone in line. They contrive to meet the vicar, who introduces them to his wife and daughter. Pablo immediately seduces the vicar's wife, and Don Juan begins on the daughter. The great lover--whom Bergman has made the personification of the "greasy, plastered-down look"--finds, however, that the girl will not be seduced. Instead she offers to give herself to him out of pity. In the end he falls hopelessly...
...family, whose women have a marked tendency to produce bastards. The narrator is George Ledra, the somewhat stuffy scion of a Manchester cotton broker. On vacation in Cornwall, 15-year-old George one felicitous morning hides in the bushes above a beach to watch Sylvia Chown Bascombe and her daughter Janet "wade naked ashore, glistening in the sunshine. They were both beautiful, the one full-breasted, the other budding." It was, thinks George, "a moment that belonged to the beginning of the world.'' For the next 30 years and 400 pages, George lopes after Sylvia and Janet. After...