Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...19th century dandy about Donleavy, born 49 years ago in New York City and now living in a large Georgian house on a 180-acre cattle farm in Ireland. There is more than a touch of stately grandiloquence to the Donleavy prose, with its Latinate preferences and its "My-dear-sir!" bursts of lace-cuff-shooting mock elegance. But what the cadenced prose does is to set up the reader for the moment when Donleavy belches out his violent, scurrilous message: life, taken all in all, is obscene-the ultimate four-letter word...
Your husband may be a homosexual, Redbook tells its 4.5 million women readers, but your marriage can survive if you make an effort. In her "Dear Abby" column, Abigail Van Buren reassures the distraught parents of a lesbian: "Why do you assume that her sexual preference will necessarily 'ruin' her life?" There are gay* studies classes in 50 colleges, gay dances in churches, gay synagogues, gay Alcoholics Anonymous groups, a lesbian credit union, even a gay Nazi Party and a Jewish lesbian group formed to fight it. There are now more than 800 gay groups in the U.S., most...
...downstairs crew at the Lassiters' seem very nearly a faceless lot. Mr. Hacker (George Rose) simply does not combine the piety and managerial skills of Mr. Hudson, and there are no equivalents of Rose or dear Mrs. Bridges. Finally, except for a few references to Prohibition, Beacon Hill betrays not the slightest concern with the world outside the Lassiters' door. There is little hope of the subtle interweave of historical issues and events with small domestic crises that has been the glory of Upstairs, Downstairs...
Kitty stuffed her lover's finicky stomach with the best English food, fussed over his frequent colds, and emptied his pockets when he came home from the wars. When he had to be away, he wrote her "Dear Wifey" notes asking her to be a "brave little woman"-letters, one reader has observed, "such as a kitchenmaid might receive from the underfootman...
...Blake. Who invented the most uncomfortable method of fishing? The appropriately named Thomas Birch, who tried to make himself inconspicuous to the fish by dressing up as a tree. What is the most gallant method of repulsing a bore at a party? Undoubtedly, Robert Browning's: "But, my dear fellow, this is too bad. I am monopolizing...