Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Expensive People, the middle volume of a trilogy that began with A Garden of Earthly Delights, spooks the suburban-castle country of the upper middle class. Author Oates has but one message in her demonic little tale: behind the suburban facade lie corruption and madness. To hear her tell it, American husbands and wives are nice clean-cut vampires planting stakes in each other's hearts. And there is always the monster in the playroom...
COMPARED to this summer's gala bash at Fenway Park, the McCarthy rally at the Garden last Friday was pretty tame stuff. Naturally there were plenty of good reasons for all the elbow room and the lack of ecstasy over the predictable sloganeering. Gene has been swamped at Chicago, Nixon, the sabre-rattling cop, was heading into the homestretch with a big lead, the Vietnam war seemed ready to take an astonishingly civilized turn, and the Garden in the fall isn't Fenway in midsummer...
There were a lot of people who came to the Garden to witness a rip-snorting rally, a sort of raucous entertainment. Disappointed, they cursed the food salesmen who told them, "We're not selling beer because too many kids are here." I wondered briefly whether some Wallace-loving municipal bureaucrat was getting subtle revenge on the peace movement. Celtics' games, anyone knows, attract at least as many kids and everybody drinks. But political sanity, it must be supposed, hardly warrants the diversion Bill Russell and the gang...
...Common this past summer, when it announced "The Sound and Light Experience." Plans had been submitted by PULSA, a research group from the Department of Art at Yale, to install 55 strobe lights under the surface of the normally staid Swan Pond, and to surround the Public Garden with 52 polyplaner speakers. The whole computer operated program promised "a factual, physiological experience of rhythmic patternings of light and sound energies, the rate and scale of which resemble the neuro-electrical basis of human consciousness...
...Experience"--which is running from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. nightly--until October 27--is attracting little attention. Most of the older couples who cut through the Garden on their way to the Ritz and Beacon Hill seem slightly embarrassed and pretend not to notice. The other night, a group of teenagers, passing around a joint, could be seen paying more attention to a radio which was playing Hey, Jude. Only a confused drunk really objected. But after yelling, "Shut it off," a few times, he left...