Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorce is common. County Circuit Judge Volie Williams, who has handled 3,000 divorces in the past two years, finds that plaintiff wives of engineers present a strikingly similar recital of marital discord. By their accounts, says the judge, "the husband never wants any family life. He likes to build a stereo set from component parts and then dare anyone in the family to touch it. Every weekend he goes out in his boat by himself and doesn't want his wife or kids to go with him. He never physically abuses his wife...
...Professionals were unnecessary, explained a succession of bartenders and bellhops, because of the numerous eager amateurs, among them single girls and divorcees drawn to the secretarial ranks of NASA and the space contractors. Liaisons often begin at "Thank God It's Friday" parties that fill the bars until past midnight, or at the frantic launch and splashdown celebrations thrown at The Mouse Trap or The Missile Lounge in Cocoa Beach...
...Virginia Woolf?, proved to be an erratic success notable for its mature dialogue and some puerile performances. By comparison, The Graduate was as mixed as its reviews. Only the audience was unanimous: box office grosses totalled over $50 million. Now completing Catch-22, Nichols seems to have recognized his past errors...
...printed page, the studiously naive dialogue contributed to an authentic period piece. Spoken onscreen, such lines as "I will not bandy words with a drunkard" tend to clutter the air like gnats. Kim Darby seems too far past puberty to be the original Mattie, and Glen Campbell proves the ideal cowboy to chase a wooden Indian. Even so, a conspiracy is afoot to make the picture succeed. Director Henry Hathaway, 71, knits the yarn into a perfect size 46 extra long for Wayne...
...sides can share the blame: the minority-group students who made extravagant "nonnegotiable" demands, the divided faculty, the administrators who temporized, the hard-line trustees, the police who broke S.F.'s bloody student strike last winter at a cost of 120 casualties and more than 730 arrests. The past, though, is less important than the future: Is the violence finally under control...