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...Genteel Revolt." The book begins as biographies are supposed to, with Bolivar's background. His land-owning family was rich and fashionably enlightened. Simon, born in Caracas in 1783, grew up in a "genteel atmosphere of revolt" and got an education based on Rousseau. He spent much of his boyhood in the country, leading a life of camping and hunting. A visit to Europe helped to make him a patriot: a Spanish officer sneered at the colonies, and young Bolivar flared up in such a hot retort that he was "advised" to leave Madrid. Back home, he joined...
...Orleans flat, the last stop on her alcoholic, nymphomaniac flight from a tide of troubles: a long siege of family deaths, the withering away of family fortune, the suicide of her young husband, the loss of her home, her job, her reputation. She still clings to a pretense of genteel propriety. But when she crosses Stanley Kowalski, her roughneck brother-in-law, he drags out her past, and thus strips the illusion from the gullible suitor she has all but hooked. Finally, while his wife is in the hospital having a baby, Kowalski brutally ravishes Blanche and pushes her completely...
Down Hanover is another legitimate skin show, the Casino. The Casino, less conscious of tradition than the Old Howard, offers "Burlesk," rather than the more genteel "Burlesque." Boston's famed Watch and Ward Society and other public indignation groups take little heed of either the Casino or the Old Howard...
...answers Ferris can dredge up are corroded with hate and futility. He loathes his job, is desperately weary of the daily stint on the office treadmill. He detests his pretentious "neo-Georgian" home in Oakdale, a genteel Midwestern suburb. Most of all he hates "the goddamn blood-drinking octopus" he married. Enid Ferris is one of those primly efficient young matrons who know how to place-kick an indulgent husband over the goal posts of a cash culture to make a social score. But Enid is all take and no give. Frigidly squeamish about the claims of the flesh...
Star of the Family (Sun., 6:30 p.m., CBS-TV), which appeared last year with Morton Downey as M.C., now has a husband and wife team in charge: Peter Lind Hayes, genteel mugger and nightclub comic, and pretty Mary Healy, singing comedienne with a pleasant willingness to let others have their say. Under their easygoing coaxing, relatives of famous entertainers (Mimi Benzell, Mel Tormé) discuss the star of the family, who then obliges with a brief performance...