Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...china was Lady Bird's eagle and state-flowers design. And just as the guests prepared to nibble their way through delicate chicken crepes and hearts-of-palm salad, who should show up but the President himself. "Just in time to cool our luncheon," quipped Pat, as her husband showed off a valentine he had received from Willie Mae Rogers, the Good Housekeeping executive whose nomination as a consumer consultant had caused such a storm. He then proceeded to read...
...subtle study of growing old. In an anguished narration, a literary woman of 60 (Novelist de Beauvoir is 61) watches herself deteriorate into shrewish fury as her stable world shifts and then resettles, diminished, along the fault line of age. She realizes, at first only with impatience, that her husband is willfully allowing himself to become old. Nothing interests him. He is a respected scientist, but he says he has not had a fresh idea in 15 years, and he repeats the aphorism that "Great scientists are valuable to science in the first half of their lives and harmful...
...Quixote with the hard X. None possess the depth or complexity of a Herzog. Roth sums it all up in my favorite image from his first novel, Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower. He's dead in his seat, . . . a horrible thing. He crashed into a tree with that damn machine." Yup, having swallowed the American dream whole, Roth's Jews--like so many minorities before them--cough themselves to death...
...Jewish joke. He is also the talented son, risen to the post of Assistant Commissioner for the City of New York Commission on Human Opportunity. His parents--"the two outstanding producers and packagers of guilt in our time"--are the expected, overprotective Jewish mother and her long-suffering, constipated husband (whose constipation seems to rival Luther's in cosmic significance.) Togther they praise and badger Portnoy until he finds himself in a paradoxical position: his family considers him among "princes . . . and saviours and sheer perfection on the one hand, and such bumbling incompetent, thoughtless, helpless, selfish, evil little shits, little...
...husband comes home from work and yawns, "How was your day, dear?" Wife (pleasantly): "O.K. How was yours?" Husband: "Oh, you know, the usual." When disagreements loom, they take refuge in the newspaper, TV or "etiquette-upmanship," a self-righteous silent treatment rationalized by the thought that self-control is more virtuous than disagreement. Argue Authors Bach and Wyden: "A marriage that operates on the after-you-my-dear-Al-phonse principle may last a lifetime-a lifetime of fake accommodation, monotony, self-deception and contempt...