Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Werner was the best male skier the U.S. ever produced. The son of a rancher from Steamboat Springs, Colo., he had never even been on a train or plane when, at 17, he traveled to Europe and in Norway beat Europe's best. If Olympic medals are a true test of a skier's ability, Werner was a failure, because he never won any. He broke a leg training for the 1960 Winter Olympics, and by the time this year's Games rolled around, he was 28 and past his peak. But over the years...
...wins the award for most unlikely casting of the year. Little Buttercup is supposed to be an old woman; indeed the entire plot, for all it's worth, hinges on her age. Yet, Miss Wilson uses no "wrinkling" makeup and cavorts like a beautiful young courtesan with the entire male half of the cast; the audience loves every minute she is on stage. Such lines as "I am a mother" bring delighted hooting, and her entrance song, "I'm called Little Buttercup," is a tour de force...
...seaman--and quickly to the college man at sea--women are tools again. But the distinction man/woman is clearly drawn, and all others as well: you are male, a "buck" or "stud"; or you are homosexual, a "queen"; or, commonly, bisexual, "AC/DC", "Greek", "double-cheeked". (Incidently, the homosexuals in the union hall keep clear and apart, and tend to ship together; anywhere in the fleet you can hear of Tillie, the Queen Bee of the Independence and the sous-chef there.) In the general camaraderie there's a great deal of rough humor about this, but no fundamental questionings: everyone...
...with new ways of seeing; he tried his friend Monet's impressionism, exhausted the old masters, learned much from the arrangements of lights and darks painted by his contemporary Whistler (though Whistler called him "a sepulcher of propriety"). In his The Birthday Party, he used the blurry-faced male figure-who commissioned the work and approved of its final, unfinished look-as a foil to set off the foreground scene of a mother cutting cake for her child. At 42, he painted his expatriate cousins, the Ralph Curtises, in their Venetian palace; the painting opens volumes of casual space...
Galbraith cited one economic planner's idea for controlling the population: the Indian government would buy 100 heliocopters which would drop over every rural village a packet containing male contraceptives and notices announcing that every family with more than two children would be liable to a 50 ruble fine and five years in jail...