Word: itches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charlotte has a seven-year widow's itch for a mate. Humbert obliges, but only because he has a very special itch for her gum-chewing, Coke-swigging daughter Lolita (Sue Lyon). The shock effect of this is dimmed, since the film ducks the duty of specifying Lolita's age and gives the part to a girl of 14 who looks a round 17. Making her movie debut, Teen-Ager Lyon is simply overmatched by the demands of her part. She acts knowing rather than sexy, and she lacks what Nabokov himself has defined as the "demoniac" essence...
...collar, a spade-tailed coat, and nose glasses leashed with yards of black, fluttering ribbon. He rolled out his words with infinite relish. "My faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics." Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst was off on one of the orations that were the delight of the Senate from...
...Flirtation. Ivory Coast's leader got his start as a country doctor in the backwoods. His contact with village chiefs and the unhappy masses gave Houphouet (he later added Boigny, which means "battering ram" in his native Baoule tongue) an itch for politics; in the 19405 he formed Ivory Coast's first political party, later organized nationalist politicians in all French West Africa territories into one large political group, the Rassemblement Democratique Africain. For a time. Houphouet-Boigny's RDA was allied with the French Communists, but eventually he dropped his Red friends; bv then...
...Frontier last week to Louisiana's Representative Harold McSween, a Democrat with a strong aversion for the Administration's controversial farm bill. For when the important vote came in the House Agriculture Committee, McSween said aye to the bill-and that was just enough to itch it through...
With more leisure in which to indulge an old itch to improve themselves, many Americans are casting an eye on culture, and catching up on philosophy as never before. No U.S. enterprise has done more to foster this trend-or has cashed in on it more successfully-than Chicago's Great Books of the Western World. This week, as it celebrates the completion of its first decade in business, Great Books can boast that it has sold more than 153,000 of its 54-volume sets, which include works by 74 authors ranging from Homer to Freud. Last year...