Word: hashish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alone readable. Easy Living, at least, is comprehensible, but the hippies who hop in and out of the beds Zane has made for them are, on the whole, lifeless forms. Rarely to they seem human; often they seem to be nothing more than sex machines. One more pot of hashish or an additional romp in the love bed could not save the book. Zane's monsters no doubt have read their Henry Miller carefully and know their cues perfectly. Only their performances are shoddy, awkward, and deserving of the stage manager's book...
...heroine is not a childless young wife, but a fading movie queen, Ariadne de Lago (Geraldine Page). The ineffectual young man, Chance Wayne (Paul Newman), is a sexual athlete, but an impotent failure as the actor he wants to be. The has-been and the would-be smoke hashish ("Moroccan, and the finest") and saunter to the footlights to tell their sordid life stories in monologue...
Modigliani died at 35, of drink, hashish, poverty and TB. Two days later his mistress-and the mother of his daughter -killed herself; the child was raised by her paternal grandmother and aunt, who always spoke in reverent tones of "your poor father." Jeanne Modigliani grew up to be an art scholar, and now she has done a prim but thorough job of sorting out her father's miserable binge of a life...
...creamy butter, rice pudding, French bread, crispy pie crust and glass upon glass of tepid milk. (It is of such starch that tomorrow's leaders are made.) It is the memory of a genial House superintendent humbly whistling an Irish air as he searched musty closets for machine-guns, hashish, Radcliffe girls and other contraband. It is the memory of leather magazine covers, tattered around the edges by the leisurely passing of time in the House common room. It is the memory of the indecisive rap on the oaken door and the diffident request to please modulate the sound...
...lives at the universities where they serve as assistant professors. The snowy-souled coeds they shepherd through seminars must be highly skeptical about French Poet Arthur Rimbaud's formula for creative success: "Systematic derangement of the senses," sometimes through ordinary alcohol, more often with absinthe, sexual inversion and hashish...