Word: nymphets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plush Teatro Nuovo for his operatic debut, a gangling, long-beaked American basso stirred his Milanese audience to excited whispers: "That's the son of Lolita." In fact, the new Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville could at best be ranked only as the fictional nymphet's half brother-the son of her creator, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov. But on his own merits, Harvard-educated Dmitri Nabokov, 27, a part-time mountain climber and amateur road racer, earned bravos from the discriminating Milanese gallery for his comic skill and the rich promise of his voice. Decided Father Nabokov...
...matured into a diminutive nymphet (5 ft. 2 in., 96 Ibs.) and got through the awkward years without the usual career intermission. With two other young aspiring actors, she formed a kind of small-scaled study group of her own; the three acted plays in the living room, roamed out into the town to test their skills, improvising scenes on park benches and in crowded bars, making speeches before street loungers to see how well they could handle audiences. Her first big-girl role (at 16) was opposite James Dean in Rebel; it won her an Oscar nomination...
...focus the old, old fact that with the wise must come the foolish, the weak, the greedy and the evil. In terms of journalism, it was tabloid week. Two great universities were rocked to their foundations by campus scandals. Eleven students resigned from Yale after a 14-year-old nymphet, daughter of a well-to-do Hamden, Conn, family, named them as her partners (along with 20 others) in a dormitory sex orgy. And the respected dean of Louisiana State University's graduate school, a scientist of world renown, was arrested and charged with the bludgeon murder...