Word: levins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very hard to think of anyone in the history of literature whose services were more generous and perceptive than his," Harry T. Levin '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, said last night...
...STEPFORD WIVES by IRA LEVIN 145 pages. Random House...
...Levin has had his greatest success with books (A Kiss Before Dying, Rosemary's Baby) that turn on the fact that men (especially lovers and husbands) will do absolutely anything to women. The plasticity of the Stepford wives, therefore, is linked to the secretive Men's Association up on the hill with its gifted membership, including a chap who once helped animate all those historical characters out in Disneyland...
This is really a short story with delusions of grandeur. But Levin skillfully manipulates the reader's feelings of suspense about Joanna, and whether or not she could do with a little domestic transformation - thus catering to male chauvinists and Women's Liberationists alike. The final message is clear and simple. As an assortment of duennas in 1930s movies used to warn their pretty charges (Frances Dee, Annabella, Maureen O'Sullivan): "Men are interested in just two things. And food's the other...
...trend, as Manhattan tastemakers were quick to conclude? Perhaps. Levin was fond of describing his restaurant as "a place where people come to dine, not to eat." With a trace of scorn, he notes that people today are merely eating. Soule had a following that included a host's delight of the wealthy and famous. Levin tried to build a new, younger clientele, without much luck...