Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defendant's Fellow-Worker's Court will now find: Ergo: The Group, as all good literary workers keeping up the work must know by new, is a collective novel about a near (or let us say quasi--) revolutionary period in American life, the nineteen-thirties; its heroines are eight nice girls, all or conceivably all of them Episcopalian at some time or another (one needs a revolutionary statistician to set these matters straight), all of them Upper-Middle Class and all of them civilized to that point of Christless High Church rectitude whose communal odor is a cress between...
...once-talented, once-creative writer's abominable prose drugs its hairy snowman feet across column after column of type. Follow his traces hoping to find something, but always at the end you find nothing there. Mailer concludes, as far as I can tell, that Mary finked the job because "nice girls live on the thin juiceless crust of the horror beneath, the screaming incest, the buried diabolisms.... Yet Mary is too weak to push through the crust and so cannot achieve a view of the world which has root...
...excellent. The theater itself seems ideal for The Hostage; the stage, surrounded on three sides by the audience, facilitates the endless entrances and exits, and the characters' numerous remarks to the house seem less contrived with the audience so close. In any case, the Charles is always a nice place to see a play, and The Hostage is a good play...
...takes a job as a salesgirl. Careless with money, she falls behind in her rent. Locked out of her flat, she spends one night with one young man, another with another. After a while, sick of being broke, she accepts some francs for her franchise. The money is nice to have, but she gets more than money out of the experience. She gets a feeling of independence, a feeling that she has made a free choice and is responsible for her whole life. For the first time she feels she is an individual, somebody special. She finds something much like...
Genet is now reasonably well off and respected in France. He has even been able to acquire a house near Nice, which he generously gave to a former lover (male), the lover's young wife (female) and her children by an earlier marriage. In the past decade, he has switched from prose to playwriting, and he has stopped displaying, so directly at least, his own private life. "I wanted," he explains, "to write something that would be more than merely subjectively scandalous. It would be objectively horrifying...