Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theater, and in its center, a shiny fire pole. Clinging to it as if to her last shred of resistance before an engulfing passion is Marilyn, rigged out in black tights. Languorously she slides down the pole, uncoils, arranges her lips in Schlitz position and murmurs, "My name is. Lolita. And I'm not supposed to. Play. With boys." Then she begins to sing My Heart Belongs to Daddy...
...such a tradition and its emotions, transferred to the Lolita generation, it was also predictable that 1960-5 Tell Laura I Love Her, a collector's item among bad records, would bring a response from Laura. It has come-with the just-released Tell Tommy I Miss Him, whose sales are already climbing toward 50,000 records. Laura lugubriously moans...
Author Vladimir Nabokov was in the news in two distant lands, where his controversial novel Lolita was upsetting both decent and indecent folks. In New Zealand a Supreme Court judge upheld a customs ban on the book. Ruled Sir Douglas Hutchison: "With the best consideration I can give it, I think Lolita is aphrodisiac.'' A sort of proof of his contention came in Israel, where one Joseph Wahrhaftig was nabbed for behavior tending to corrupt the morals of a minor girl. Wahrhaftig recently translated Lolita into Hebrew...
...Fate. "Only three weeks ago," said Composer Nicolas Nabokov, cousin of the U.S.'s bestselling Novelist Vladimir (Lolita) Nabokov, "they held Boris Pasternak's funeral outside Moscow. Though the newspapers printed no word of it. 1,500 people came [TIME, June 13]. Though nothing of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago has ever been published in Russia, a single unknown young person stepped forward and began reciting a poem from Zhivago called 'Hamlet.' As he recited, voice after voice joined in until it seemed the whole crowd was reciting together." With that, Nabokov wound up the conference...