Word: riper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last, in the 20th century, man realizes that his days have grown far too short. He is only a vessel of the life force that is evolving along "the path to godhead," and if civilization is to advance or even survive, he must learn to live to a riper, wiser age. Over the next 300 centuries, he begins working his way back to Adam's 1,000 years, or at least to Methuselah...
Till now, I trust, your wits are riper...
Hefner knows exactly what he wants. He likes the young, pouty type without complications or excessive intelligence. Riper beauties he summarily dismisses. "Jeanne Moreau is a fine actress," he once said. "But as a woman she tells me zero. And zero to Greta Garbo. I think that when Sophia Loren was 20 she had a fantastic body. But that is all." To Gershon Legman, a Paris-based writer on sexuality, "Playboy is for the subvirile man who just wants to look. Basically, he's afraid of the girls." Says the Rev. William...
...that point lurks another: that goodness ought to have its head examined for trying to coexist with evil. In this book, his sixth, Vonnegut clearly establishes his kinship to the late Nathanael West, and Eliot Rosewater could easily pass as the reincarnation of Miss Lonelyhearts. But Vonnegut is both riper and less mature than West-and less angry. Able to observe detachedly above the world's fray, he has not enlisted in the cause of either good or evil, but he can find endless amusement in their collision...
...Miracle Worker, plays two roles as "identical cousins," one a square, the other a wild hare, in The Patty Duke Show (ABC). Her program works no miracles, but Patty, now 15, is a winning girl and pleasant to watch. Other shows are made palatable by three even riper pomegranates. Inger Stevens, for example, could stand still and smile for 30 minutes and win a higher rating than Joe Valachi pitching for the Dodgers. Unfortunately, she is imprisoned in the script of The Farmer's Daughter (ABC), a comedy series loosely based on the old Loretta Young movie. Diahn Williams...