Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following morning. Hirst bounds into the room and greets Spooner as a long-lost classmate and friend from Oxford. As they reminisce, the talk turns to sex. Hirst reveals that he had seduced Spooner's wife and enjoyed her as his mistress, while Spooner makes some equally jarring sexual revelations. Then, Spooner makes an eloquent and persuasive case for his staying on as Hirst's personal secretary. As the curtain falls, it looks as if an edgy ménage à quatre has been formed...
...evening of slapstick and mime. Scapino is a showcase rather than a play; its success depends on the comic talents of the actors in a show which has no pretensions to dramatic integrity. The script demands a veritable catalogue of comedy skills, ranging from stand-up routines to sexual sightgags to circus acrobatics...
...erotic overtones of this surmise tinge Gass's entire argument. For he is not finally interested in pinning "blueness" to the wall, but in suggesting what is truly "blue" in the realm of art. Not, he insists, the vivid depiction of sexual activity. Literature can convey only a mechanical imitation of the real thing-and offer a skewed reality to boot: "I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it, a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken...
COEDUCATION--The first steps toward coeducation at Harvard were taken out of necessity, not out of social or political principle. From 1882 until the 1940s, sexual segregation was so stringently adhered to that professors often repeated lectures twice a day--once in the morning for the men at Harvard, and once in the afternoon for the women at Radcliffe. But when World War II broke out in the 1940s, such a large portion of the faculty went on active duty that the dearth of lecturers forced the two colleges to share these prized commodities. This temporary measure was made permanent...
...dramatic sense of violence. In fact, for two of the Provos' fashionable sympathizers, acting and life are terribly confused. Araba Nightwing is a popular actress who proves her dedication to the cause by masquerading as a housewife and ranting against-Punch and Judy shows. Lady Arrow, an aristocratic, bi-sexual people "collector", directs prison plays and gets more of a thrill out of having her things stolen than she does from giving them away. The novel turns on Hood's discovery that Mayo's stolen painting really belongs to Lady Arrow. All action, Hood sees, is political and all politics...