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As with other boys, the lift came slowly, from the boy himself: "All of a sudden I started looking at a man who was petting a cat. I saw the trees and the people for the first time. And I asked George the janitor questions I never would have asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Talking It Out | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

In the film's first scene, the teen-aged hero (Warren Beatty) and heroine (Natalie Wood), a couple of nice kids from Kazansas, are shown in cinema's stock petting situation. Later that night the heroine's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, smarmy, gabby, hypocritical, vicious and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love in Kazansas | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Intimidated by these and other horrible examples of the small-town attitude toward sex and life, the hero and heroine stop petting and finally even stop seeing each other. Now according to Freud, the repression of sex can cause all sorts of unpleasant symptoms. So the hero promptly comes down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love in Kazansas | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

He: Do you object to petting?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dead Tiger | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

Snopeses of San Lio. Though she acquires titles, Ippolita stems from a clan that was born below the stairs in other people's manors. The Raugeos are Italian versions of Faulkner's wily Snopeses, who grab, trick and weasel their way into the landed gentry. Befriending a Raugeo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Duke-of-the-Year Club | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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