Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ERMYNTRUDE AND ESMERALDA by Lytton Sfrachey. 75 pages. Stein and Day. $5.95. A novelistic joke by the author of Eminent Victorians protests repression through the letters of two sexually inquisitive girls. Written in 1913 and rather cutesie-pie, with terms like pussy cat and bow-wow for private parts.
Sir: Re the letter from Yale Professor Fred Rodell further castigating the nomination of Judge Clement Haynsworth to the Supreme Court [Sept. 12]: the professor obviously is a man who suffers from frustration. In his frenetic effort to compensate for his failure in self-accomplishment, he has resorted over the...
Tart Seduction. Connery is the first male, a prideful master carpenter who takes for granted that woman was created solely for his pleasure. He matter-of-factly lies to all his ladies, including his daughter (Calder-Marshall). That deceit permanently estranges them, indurates her heart against all men and sets...
Unfortunately for Columbia, Heard had a point. The man who eventually accepts the job will face excruciating problems on Mormngside Heights. While working outlandish hours, he will have to cope with more possible student disorders, plus the angry local residents whose homes impede the university's needed expansion. He...
Loesser was something of a family black sheep. He showed a distinct preference for baseball, slang and jazz-all alien to the cultural traditions of his European-emigrant parents. His German father was an eminent New York piano teacher, his Czech mother a lecturer and translator of books. Brother Arthur...