Word: glorias
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...they are today, but we were largely unaware of them. And so, for most of us they did not exist. Hypocritical? Yes. Smug? That too -insufferably so. But then so was the country. If the decade of the '50s had the suffocating "smell of the middle class," as Gloria Steinem, 34, says with distaste, then it was an odor that most Americans seemed to like...
...Stone, and Senators Muskie and Kennedy. Most speakers have pointedly avoided the usual traces of condescension and easy platitude. Subjects have ranged afield. Planned Parenthood Crusader Alan Guttmacher urged Smith graduates to practice fertility control; at Vassar, where most graduates' caps were bedecked with peace symbols, Writer Gloria Steinem spoke on Women's Liberation. But the dominant themes were war and the young...
...Nichols' auto biography. If he is indeed breaking camp, his move is Yossarianic in its scope. Nichols was the original enthusiast of urbane Waughfare. In the '60s he compiled an unbroken string of Broadway smashes. He was a certified Beautiful Person, intimate of Lenny and Jackie, chum of Gloria Steinem, an original backer of Arthur, the slipped discotheque. Twice married, once divorced, once separated, he was the most eligible married male in Manhattan. His upper West Side triplex was decorated by Billy Baldwin. His Rolls waited obediently at the curb while he visited his fellow greats. His corporation was acquired...
...reviewer of Professor X's (Daniel Boorstin) The Sociology of the Absurd [April 13] missed what is probably the most delightful point of satire against society found in the book: the dedication "To Dick and Gloria Dorspn-Motif No. D132." Professor Dorson is director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, and D132 refers to a unit of classification-the motif-used by folklorists in breaking down tales into component parts for analysis. Motif No. D132 is "transformation...
...Gloria will lose her battle. She longs for something quite modern-the undisputed possession of husband and home. But Jack is really Eudora Welty's man: for him, life is a perpetual family reunion. "There is only one way of depriving the ones you love," he decides, "taking your living presence away from theirs. No one alive has ever deserved such punishment...