Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Decent and Indecent is a series of essays, not a systematic treatise. Spock apparently could not decide whether he was writing an edification manual for a general audience or an outraged diatribe against the Establishment. In fact, Spock speaks in a bewilderment of voices: part Dear Abby, part pop anthropology, part sex manual, part vintage Spock ("When, during toilet training, he feels cross at his mother, he may withhold the B.M."). At times, though entirely truthful, he is also relentlessly obvious: "Black people continue to be identified and barred by their color...
...East Village- chafes in his starched shirt and itching boxer shorts at the prospect of having to talk to the long-haired hippies who circulate throughout the theatre before the show begins, trying to communicate with straight adult society. His wife elbows him gently in the ribs, saying, "No dear, those aren't real hippies, they're members of the cast." He makes a plastic attempt at amused politeness, since "being tolerant" these days is more hip than Hair...
...more than this Segal gets maximum mileage from his sad ending (the death of the heroine Jenny) by revealing it at the beginning. This not only imbues the entire novel with foreboding (so dear to the hearts of the Ladies' Home Journal readers for whom this particular novel was serialized; see chapter IV on writing for magazines) but keeps the readers reading to see how the author gets to his announced end. Nowadays surprise, unless you are able to handle it with finesse, is best avoided...
...girl problems too. He wrote letters to his two girl friends back home and inadvertently reversed the addresses on the envelopes. Both giris responded with "Dear John" letters, and Doug is now planning to take these and other "Dear John's" he has collected through the years and turn them into a book...
...That's my big project," he says. "They're all so funny. One girl, Cathy, wrote me this whole long four-page letter and added the "Dear John" part...