Word: fortyish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brand's protagonist is Dr. John Marks, a fortyish general practitioner from Brooklyn, who becomes fascinated by psychotherapy while undergoing analysis. (A grandmother with a whip nearly gave him a castration complex.) Working in a state mental hospital and, later, at a psychiatric research center, Marks is disturbed to find shock treatments being rather callously applied with almost no recognition of the psychotic as a sensitive human being. To straighten things out, Marks sets himself up as a one-man's family - a substitute father and sometimes mother figure who talks to disturbed patients more or less like...
...evening from as far as Osaka on the 125-m.p.h. bullet train; nearly all are between 30 and 40 years old. A middle-aged maitre d' guides each first-timer to a host after discreetly asking her preference. Regular customers streak straight to their favorites. Says one fortyish matron: "My husband leaves me alone with my two children at home for his golfing. I make my husband mind my children once in a while so that I can come here and dance with the boys." Adds another: "My husband? Why, I'm sure he's somewhere having...
...shifting its account to the much publicized, two-year-old Manhattan agency of Wells, Rich, Greene. Admen were stunned. For one thing, Wells, Rich, Greene had not even participated in last summer's drag-out battle for the TWA billings. Moreover, only nine months ago, blonde, fortyish Mary Wells, the agency's president and cofounder, married Harding Lawrence, chairman of Braniff Airways, whose $6,500,000 account had taken her struggling outfit off the ground...
...scene is Eastern exurbia, with its vast, manicured lawns, four-car garages and, most emblematic of the good life, swimming pools. Among those who drank too much is Neddy Merrill (Hurt Lancaster), a fortyish adman. But unlike the commuters who surround him, he nurses no hangover and fights no paunch. One day Merrill inexplicably finds himself eight miles from home dressed only in swimming trunks. Suddenly, obsessed by a strange notion, he decides to take an unearthly route home -by splashing in and out of his neighbors' pools...
Listlessness of Limbo. Agnon's nameless Wandering Jew in this 1939 novel is a fortyish exile returned from Palestine after World War I to the East European town of his youth. Moving into a small hotel, the wanderer becomes "that man who was a guest for the night and stayed for many nights." Agnon himself was born in the Galicia region of Austro-Hungarian Poland, went to Palestine as a very young man, then back to Europe during World War I before returning to his adopted homeland. Obvious elements of disenchanted autobiography are present in the words that another...