Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the glorious Crimson sent the defeated Dartmouth drunkards back to their tundra turf Saturday for the fifth consecutive year, they hoped that a notably poor prank, in the form of a parody of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily, would ease the pain of returning to unfulfilled sexual lustings and bottmoless kegs of Budweiser...
...future is framed in political terms, no one better understands the sexual division of labor than John Irving. His first three novels are Setting Free the Bears. The WaterMethod Man, and The 158-Pound Marriage. They went nowhere, but they are being re-issued in paperback. It seems that this book was written for much the same reason that Faulkner sensationalized Sanctuary--after three, the author begins to wonder where the fame and fortune are. But underneath the sensationalism and violence there is a very good book. The best of 1978. We're landing, and who knows where...
...there consists of drinking and watching the jungle reclaim the cottages. Naturally, this, uh, bucolic setting provides time for a lot of introspection, which is what just about everybody does. All of the characters involved get their chance to spin out brief but revealing vignettes about their various problems--sexual, social, existential. Here Alter really struts his stuff; the excellent vignettes display versatility that a young novelist, by rights, should not yet have. He uses multiple perspectives of the same event has a Faulknerian ring...
...faculty had a majority on the committees, and they used it. The high hopes were dashed. Pressing issues such as sexual integration of the Houses and the presence of ROTC on campus began to vanish...
...Julia lives on a farm outside Longhorn, which lies near an abandoned gold mine bequeathed by her late father. In need of a man to help her strike it rich and return to her beloved Philadelphia, Julia settles for the grungy Moone, despite his atrocious table manners and ravenous sexual appetite...