Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparison of the two, as men and artists, was inevitable. If Styron's writing was prettier, then Mailer's had more of blood and tissue in it. Mailer's work was barren of the personal grasses of childhood, while Styron poked in the dusts of his youthful past until one sensed that it haunted him in the night, blew grain-by-gain through his soul; sandpapered it. Mailer wrote of sex in terms of a fifteen-round fight in which red peppers were joyously thumbed into the other fellow's eyes: he saw fucking as vital confrontations. Styron wrote...
...shameful state of affairs. Nor is it made prettier by present growing tendencies to impose conformity. There is a broadening simplistic conviction among many in our community-in this case not just among the extremists-that there is a "right" way of looking at the various issues of these times and that non-agreement with this view is not to be tolerated...
...shameful state of affairs. Nor is it made prettier by present growing tendencies to impose conformity. There is a broadening simplistic conviction among many in our community- in this case not just among the extremists- that there is a "right" way of looking at the various issues of these times and that no agreement with this view is not to be tolerated...
Miss Garrity's objective in writing the book, beyond the money in it (85,000 copies sold), was to persuade women no prettier than herself ("I have heavy thighs, lumpy hips, protruding teeth, a ski-jump nose, poor posture, flat feet, and uneven ears") that being unattractive is no obstacle in the sex game. Her rules for playing it are inventive, to say the least. Among other things, she invites her readers to fantasize "being ravished by a tiger," to keep a sex diary ("briefly rate your sexual response as superb, good, indifferent or lousy"), and to "train like...
They look like two typical blonde housewives-except maybe prettier-who probably spend their days shuttling between the hairdresser and the bridge table. Housewives they are, but Mickie Silverstein and Teddi Levison are also news reporters for radio station WRNG in Atlanta. In a day when the networks dominate broadcast news, they have accomplished the near impossible for a local station: last week they won a George Foster Peabody Award for "a significant illustration of radio used to investigate and report on community problems."* Their prize-winning program was a half-hour documentary on strong-arm police tactics in Atlanta...