Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That has been especially so in the past two decades, as this week's cover story on new American manners points out. One popular up-to-date guidebook to shifts in manners since World War II, and particularly since the sexual revolution of the '60s, is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, which has just been revised by former White House Social Secretary Letitia Baldrige. To prepare the cover story, Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison interviewed Baldrige and found her "warm, graceful and witty, with manners so good you don't notice them." The cover assignment, however...
...most interesting and helpful sections of her book involve the conundrums that have arisen in the turmoil of morals, sexual roles and obsessive candor of the past decade: How, for example, should parents deal with the question of whether to allow their child to sleep...
...most complicated problems of the new manners revolve around the almost endlessly subtle new variations on sexual roles. Says Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist: "There's a fair amount of ambiguity out there on the rules of behavior. Like dealing with blacks in the '60s, no one quite knows how to behave with women without giving offense." Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz tells an appalling story of taking out a woman who, when the check came and Dershowitz went to settle up, started griping: "Are you trying to dominate me?" Such women should spend the rest of their lives...
...sexual fantasy in space? Why not? In television's latest Star Wars spinoff, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Nov. 17 on CBS, Diahann Carroll plays Mermia, a romantic vision from a water planet. She arrives on the screen when Attchituck, a 400-year-old member of the Wookie family, sits down at a special machine designed to enliven the imagination, closes his eyes and thinks X ratings. "I was very happy for him that at age 400 he could still have sensual, sexual fantasies," says Carroll, 43. "As a mere human, I was very jealous...
Enter, stage right, A.L. Rowse. "If it is something about Elizabethen Age, you would do well to ask me" the retired Oxford don once wrote to a critic, and he was right. Volume after volume has testified to Rowse's intimacy with the 17th century. No sexual custom, no oddity of language or quirk of lore seems to have escaped his attention. Now he displays his wit and erudition in an extravagant three-volume work that has no precedent and is not likely to have successors. The Annotated Shakespeare has no restrictions; it suits the actor and the scholar...