Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Serious study of suicide has been hampered by the fear and loathing that society brings to the idea of self-destruction; an example is Mary Hemingway's initial insistence that her husband's death was accidental. Primitive tribes usually fear the suicide as a ghostly avenger. Pre-Christian...
An accomplished killer, Nissim carries out his mission. But Rothberg is far too skilled a storyteller to let him escape unscathed. Nissim has always lost whatever he has loved, but he has survived, and at last he no longer doubts the value of that gift. "On the last six days...
Will little Oedipus escape from his complex? The answer is a real skirt-hanger, suggesting every known perversion, until the happy ending when boy rinds a girl like Mom. The Cocteau-film atmosphere of high camp is sustained by skilled faux-simple prose, which at times evokes Heinrich Mann, at...
Many Manhattan skyscrapers are now equipped with emergency power for elevators, in which thousands of New Yorkers were trapped, and auxiliary lighting for the stairs down which many more thousands had to escape.
The nightmarish visions of a rapidly disintegrating mind? Not at all. These are happenings in Greenwich Village as reported by the eleven-year-old weekly Village Voice. Few Village fancies escape the attention of the Voice. No Village fad-from psychedelic shopping centers to erotic Christmas ornaments-is too eccentric...