Word: queene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Victoria Ocampo, 88, Argentina's "Queen of Letters" for nearly half a century; in Buenos Aires. Educated in Europe, Ocampo in 1931 founded Sur, an avant-garde Spanish literary magazine that introduced to her countrymen such established foreign authors as Shaw, Faulkner, Sartre and Camus as well...
...Dutch writer Janwillem van de Wetering writes about Amsterdam policemen and the statutes and terrors that govern their lives, but this casual author makes Sjöwal-Wahlöö look like Ellery Queen. Van de Wetering's novels meander along, with asides on the foibles of human nature and gracefully written filaments of Eastern philosophy. The plot is announced early in the narrative and dispatched at the end as quickly as a victim. The author, 48, was once a Buddhist monk in Japan (he wrote about that arduous life in An Empty Mirror). He returned to The Netherlands...
Hansel and Gretel are abandoned by their father and stepmother in a forest. Snow White is pursued by an assassin sent by her stepmother, the Queen, and then by the Queen herself. Fairy tales are, in fact, full of parents and stepparents with a murderous bent toward kids. So why do children continue to read them? Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dorothy Bloch, 66, believes she knows why: the small child has an "almost built-in" fear of infanticide, which these hoary horror stories help expunge...
After all, most fags are as boring as straight people--they start businesses with lovers and end up in Hollywood, Florida, with dogs and doubleknit slacks and I have no desire to write about them... But the failures--that tiny subspecies of homosexuals, the doomed queen... That fascinates me! The fags who consider themselves worthless because they are queer...
Quite by happenstance, Merrick then came to the benign attention of Dr. Frederick Treves, a gifted anatomist at London Hospital who eventually became personal surgeon to Queen Victoria. Private quarters were set aside for Merrick at the hospital, and with infinite patience but genteel reserve, Treves embarked on a process of Victorian social engineering. In a sense it is the education of a noble savage, but here an ironic ambiguity begins to bite into the play. For who, precisely, is noble and who is savage? At one point, when two hospital orderlies are sacked for gaping at Merrick, he asks...