Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WESTON, VT., Playhouse. Two men suffering hangovers from marriages on the rocks try setting up an all-male household in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple...
...Norman Mailer says he's after, and despite the critical catcalls over his first movie, he's still in there cranking away. The latest is a flick about a paranoid film director, played by old Norm of course, with a sharp little subplot about a bunch of male prostitutes. How's that for a takeoff on Belle de Jour? Beautiful. So there they were, Mailer and about 100 of his pals, out on Long Island shooting some scenes and pow!-Norm got into a fight with Actor Lane Smith and broke Smith's jaw. Next...
...sister of two more, Elizabeth Harre decided to break the mold slightly and take up social work. After her fiance was killed during World War II, she studied sociology and law, then worked at a women's prison as a lawyer. She soon decided that it was male criminals she really wanted to work with. "Female criminals," she says, "are not the 'poor devil' kind. They are beastly and hysterical." Young men in trouble, however, "are pitiable subjects in need of a mother, a woman or a girl friend." In 1962, despite the reservations of federal prison...
Last month, Hans-Gûnter Hoppe, head of the West Berlin justice department, announced that "Mother" Harre, 41, had been appointed warden -the first woman ever to boss a male prison in Germany and one of the first such women wardens anywhere in the world. Turning to Miss Harre, he added: "Your female intuition and your motherly understanding-plus your toughness-assure me that our juvenile prison is in good hands. I am tempted to say that you are the right...
...hero is not a simple misogynist, not a fully accredited human being with but one blank space in his account. Burgess's male characters, with the exception of the cynical betrayer, Rawcliffe, whose death is the most effective episide in the book, are as static and object-like as his women. The characters are exhibits of no more than equal rank with the strange locales and cunning twists of fate Burgess marshals for the reader's diversion...