Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the old Radcliffe Government Association by-laws, open house hours were only from 7:30 a.m. to midnight, and men were not allowed to remain in the dorm if a girl was not on bells...
...something giddy in the air--like a giant joke that everyone was in on. Lots of smiling went on. People smiled at each other on the street and said hello for no reason. One ecstatic sophomore stopped me in front of Sterling Library and told me that seeing a girl at Yale on a Monday was almost more than he could bear. After four years of prep school and two years of Yale he had been led to think that "girls folded and disappeared from Sunday evening to Friday morning." It was a little depressing coming from a twenty-year...
...with it), but it doesn't always make for a good laugh. Dickson, by plugging in tidbits of humor-in-microcosm ("Brackley...worked long and hard on certain aspects of the dissection of a fetal pig"), but overall the joke is strained. In the story, Brackley carves up his girl's face, but she becomes a model. Grotesque? Yes ("Camillia emerged from the bathroom wearing a slip and having a long, thin nose, a deep cleft serving as an eyebrow, one eye resting where her cheek bone formerly was ..."). Funny? Not really...
...David Janssen, as a TV correspondent covering the Vatican, is even more awkward among the red hats than he was as a journalist with The Green Berets. Before the Pope straightens out her life Janssen's wife (Barbara Jefford) accuses him of spending the night with a girl friend. "You really pick a helluva time to bring that up," he says. "I'm on the air in 47 minutes...
...amoral, wide-eyed girl, Genevieve Waite* is startling: she is one of the few new English-accented stars of the '60s who do not look or act like a secondhand Julie Christie. Not especially prepossessing or crafty, she is totally free of mannerisms, as natural as someone on a Chelsea sidewalk. Her fellow players seem equally and effectively plucked from real life. The best of them is Donald Sutherland, as a frail, talentless aristocrat, whose tentative worship of the Beautiful People is so well portrayed that it turns a bit part into a leading role...