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...Updike points out, are the evils that persist in Everyman: "Is not destructiveness within us as a positive lust, an active hatred? Who does not exult in fires, collapses, the ruin and death of friends? What man can exempt from his purest sexual passion and most chivalrous love, the itch to defile...
...feeling the pinch. In Southern California, more than 16% of those without work are in professional, technical or managerial classifications. Nationally, many teachers and recent college graduates with liberal arts degrees find themselves unwanted, and managers in the over-50 set who were forced to take early retirement and itch to get back in the saddle are pounding the streets. Ross Kalegi, owner of an Akron employment agency, describes the plight of one: "He was making $18,000 a year as a sales executive at a rubber firm, but he was forced to retire...
...addition, more than half of this year's Nieman group enrolled in a fiction writing seminar taught by Diana Thomson. ("While we don't want to turn our journalists into novelists, many of them can't suppress the itch." Thomson remarked...
ELIOT HOUSE DINING ROOM, The Seven Year Itch with Marilyn Monroe (at 8) and Adam's Rib (at 10) with Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, April...
...itch to travel can be summarily scratched, the hunger for acquisition is not so easily appeased. No need to parody the King Ranch; the cynic can start small. A shrewd shopper may buy an entire ten-acre island in Deerskin Lake, Wis., for $115,000. For a bit more, the Bahamas' entire Whale Cay, complete with mansion and matching village can be acquired: 650 acres, 20 minutes by plane from downtown Nassau, seven white-sand beaches, and all priced to sell at $3,500,000. Is the purchaser partial to antiques? He can live in one (when...