Word: tarbox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tarbox Town Criers...
...breathing language as the preacher. Your review almost succeeded where Updike's novel fails-that is, to see beyond the current public American view of sexuality as a gee-whiz genital performance. But neither your reviewer nor Updike ever really found a way out of Updike's Tarbox. I believe you ought to get some reading done away from the Greenwich commuter's bar car. There's a whole landscape of really living people outside who aren't the lost adolescents of most modern fiction...
...glad that we now have John Updike to tell us all about the ins and outs of Tarbox. Down here in our benighted society we have difficulty finding privacy with our own husbands, much less anyone else's. What with raising a family, providing for them and maintain ing the virtues, we just don't have time for marital adventures outside our own home. Although admittedly we have to resort from time to time to sending all the children to a wickedly expensive Disney film in order to attain dark at the top of the stairs...
...interested in knowing why he picked the name Tarbox for the town in which the action, among other things, was laid. While reading, I watched carefully for a cause for civil action, but ended feeling more envious than damaged. In Pasadena, about the most daring thing mixed couples do that I know of, is play a fast game of croquet...
...TARBOX Pasadena, Calif...