Word: spinsterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rather than a malted, Shirley is really a marm-a frustrated, febrile virgin teaching a grist of young Maoris in New Zealand, the homeland of Author Sylvia Ashton-Warner, on whose literary masterpiece, Spinster, the film is based-or, better, grounded. For all that was artless power, poetry and humor in the book is now arty, prosy and plodding...
After serving twelve years in prison for treason, Maine-born Spinster Mildred Gillars, 60, siren-singing "Axis Sally" of World War II, will be paroled in July, plans to work in a nunnery, possibly teaching music...
...William Baker, a once-promising, now dribbling, minor publishing-house editor who is yet the big fish for a group of skimpy has-beens and pallid never-weres. There are William's dull mistresses, who have been more habit-forming than exhilarating; there is a culture-nibbling male spinster, a self-centered, vermouth-soggy ex-publisher. Dancing around William at birthdays and get-togethers, they bicker and collide, inflate their roles, deflate their rivals; while darting dandiacally in and out is a successful literary glamour boy, cruelly kind as he hurries off to grander feasts...
What an afternoon!... In the first place, there was the ennui. And such ennui as it was! A heavy, overpowering ennui, such as results from a participation in eight courses of steaming gravied food, topping off with salted nuts which the little old spinster Gummidge from Oak Hill said she never knew when to stop eating ... an ennui which carried with it a retinue of yawns, snarls and thinly velled insults.... The subject ought to be unmistakeable...
...muted, tastefully done sets of From These Roots could not disguise the detergent flavor. But, with its still faintly unrealistic air, color does enliven the pseudo-realism of daytime drama, and did so for the fourth Purex Special for Women, which soap-operatically explored the fate of the modern spinster. Color also lent visual interest to such ordinary dry items as News of the Day, which included the first fully tinted tour of President Kennedy's redecorated office...