Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affairs among a group of affluent suburban couples, bears an ironic quotation from Paul Tillich that outlines the novel's thesis. The quotation tells us that when the average citizen feels that "the decisions relating to the life of the society to which he belongs are a matter of fate on which he has no influence," then a mood is created that "is favorable to the resurgence of religion, but unfavorable to the preservation of a living democracy...
...affairs of the novel take place against a backdrop of news headlines, introduced peripherally by the author. Like "matters of fate" they impinge hardly at all upon the consciousness of the adulterers. Kennedy's assassination, for example, does not deter a drunken party, for after all, as the host Freddy Thorne says, "I've bought all the booze...
...power of suggestion, attempted to make the hospital a tool of planned parenthood associaties. It is difficult to get a representative or quotable statement of the attitudes of the doctors associated With Cambridge City, though the atmosphere might be described as "cautious" grading into indifference. The political fate of the birth control issue of the projected East Cambridge Clinic (to meet the unsatisfied demand for medical attention) will be instructive to watch. One informed source said of the 25 potential associates, "They are universally frightened of the birth control issue." Whether this fear is one of patient reprisal...
...first glance, group violence may not seem to be the U.S. paradigm. Individualists claw their way through the unrelieved shootings, stabbings, rapes and lynchings of American fiction; lone duelers against fate people the works of writers as various as Melville, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Saul Bellow. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking and his numerous uptight descendants-the Western marshal, the private eye-are solitary scouts strewing the wilderness with dead Indians and renegades. Still, the singular misfits who tamed the frontier with bile, brawn and bowies were also members of often hostile groups-cattlemen v. sheepherders, for example. Indeed...
SEVERAL months ago, Felipe Herba was speculating grimly about the fate of his then-uncompleted I'm A Stranger Here Myself: it seemed the actors hated him and Herba couldn't locate them to finish shooting. More recently, the lovely and admirable star of Lady Jane Talks to the Director, Jane Manopoli, told me that her experience in film-making had been nerve-wracking--she didn't know what she was doing and director Peter Coonradt kept changing his mind...