Word: mistressing
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...Mistress & Keeper. To a surprising extent, it is the white woman who is the aggressor. "Negro men are more hunted than hunter," declares Dr. Maurice F. Freehill, professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington. "Black is In this year," beams a Negro Washington. D.C., student and he has been making the most of it. Handsome and athletic, he drives a Cadillac, walks a Doberman pinscher and holds court under the shade trees of Washington's Dupont Circle. He has more white girl friends than he knows what to do with. "They pass me around," he says with...
...encased in a still photograph. When a salesman presents Mario with a balloon, he inflates it and suddenly becomes obsessed with the mystery of what he has done. "If I stop and there's still room inside," he muses, "then I've failed." Ignoring his friends, his mistress (Catherine Spaak) and ultimately himself, Mario gets absorbed in the nonproblem of how much air can be pumped into a balloon before it bursts...
...reproofs of his decay, shadowy chroniclers of loss, rejection, betrayal and defeat. His upbraided, put-upon clerks are walking legal briefs, drawn up against Maitland's corrosive contempt for his work. His wife (Eleanor Fazan) attests Maitland's bankrupt marriage. He resorts to his sage and patient mistress (Jill Bennett), not to exchange the gift of self but to flee from self. His casual office couchmates simply represent a frantic release of tension in the friction of flesh. Maitland propositions girls with brusque self-regard: "Do you like it, do you want it? Those are the only questions...
Died. Patricia Jessel, 47, mistress of theatrical malice, whose dark hair and darker voice were just the ticket for mystery lovers on both sides of the Atlantic; of a heart attack; in London. Although a versatile Shakespearean actress, the Hong Kong-born performer found her real metier as a modern villainess, won fame (and a Tony Award) for her portrayal of the calculating wife in the 1954 Broadway run of Witness for the Prosecution...
...blond mixture, streaked from the sun, of middle length, and is often caught at the back of the neck in a little net bag." Despite such allure, a man of Real Society may become jaded, and if this occurs, says the author, he may be permitted to keep a mistress. Here is a true class distinction: the lives of the lofty are spacious enough for mistresses, but the lower orders have only adultery. It is the difference between maintaining a yacht and day-chartering a party boat...