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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television. Its spirit is borrowed from Sex and the Single Girl, which enjoyed a huge sale at book counters and furnished the title for a moneymaking movie. For TV, the screen has become a gigantic keyhole through which viewers are invited to watch a series of career-type girls snare a date for the night. Out of girl-sight, three bachelors-at least one a celebrity-parry questions from the husband hunters. Samples: "How would you go about telling your date that she had a dress that was maybe too short or too tight?" "They can't make...
Unhappily, as was often the case with Victorian politicians, Dilke's private life was rather less exemplary than his public activity. He had a fatal attraction to the tigress type, and during his 20s and 30s he apparently conducted affairs with three or four appallingly predatory women-among them his sister-in-law's mother...
Bond's dry-land conquests were somewhat zingier type in Goldfinger, but in Thunderball he manages a change of pace by joining Largo's seaworthy French playmate (Claudine Auger) for an amorous exploit down among the corals. "I hope we didn't frighten the fish," he quips afterward, wading ashore. Alas, even subaqueous sex cannot keep the formula entirely fresh. Yet, if Thunderball's gimmickry seems to overreach at times, Actor Connery gains assurance from film to film, by now delivers all his soppiest Jimcracks martini-dry. He is hilariously astringent when he drops a limp...
...graduate school recommendations offer a different type of challenge to the faculty member championing your cause. He is asked to rank such qualities as "native intellectualability" along a scale which, depending on the university, may have the relaxed simplicity of "above average, average, or below average," or the scientific exactness of "top 1-2 per cent...
...supposed to summarize one's attendance at the University of California; later one discovers a smaller box for attendance at other universities.) Although Harvard may feel unduly proud of the internationalism implied in the directive that "the enclosed application should be completed in English," one should point out another type of broad-mindedness: the application asks one to list "secondary and preparatory schools...