Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only bonds uniting the latest arrival to his six older brothers, including Dwight, then almost nine, were those imposed by duty and family. Milton was a sore disappointment to David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower, who yearned for a daughter. "My father was sorry he never had a girl," recalls brother Earl. "He used to sit on our front porch and make friends with every little girl that came by. I know he was miserable because Milton wasn't a little girl...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, a spicy broth of a girl, ducking in and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's lighthearted peek at Mayfair manners and morals (TIME...
Lolita is a major work of fiction; it is also a shocking book. Prefaced by a fictitious academic fathead who presents it as a message to "parents, social workers, [and] educators," the book describes the transcontinental debauch of a twelve-year-old girl by a middle-aged monomaniac. As it turns out, the narrator is writing his apologia from a prison cell (he is to be tried for murder). As far as erotic detail is concerned, the book tells little that has not been dealt with in a lot of bestselling fiction; but where the sexy bestsellers talk about...
Humbert's obsession began in a dreamily distant beach resort where he met and desperately loved a girl-both being unlucky 13. Since Humbert is given to puckish literary references, the girl's name, of course, was Annabel Leigh (Poe spelled it Lee). After Humbert's early love is interrupted by shame and death, he incessantly searches for a return to that lost, childish kingdom by the sea. He searches through the mail order catalogues of Paris whoredom, through a low-comedy marriage, through Central Park-until he finally finds Annabel's reincarnation in Dolores Haze...
Nabokov is resigned to the idea that Lolita will be attacked on moral grounds, but he humorously questions the moral standards of at least some U.S. publishers. One firm, he notes, offered to publish the book three years ago if he turned Lolita from a girl into a boy-homosexuality presumably being much more acceptable than nymphet-mania...