Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diehard Thoreau types who prefer to catch up on their writing or sample the sweet joys of summer. Closed up in his Newfane, Vt., summer home, Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, 57, reports that he is dutifully turning out a new book "one dreary page after another." University of Virginia Professor J. D. Forbes, 56, a specialist in business history, is flying kites and writing detective stories while on a visit to his married daughter in California. So long as they are encouraged, even pressured, to fly jets, it seems likely that fewer and fewer faculty members will...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee's drama about a venomous all-night orgy of truth and consequences on faculty row has reached the screen with every four-letter word intact. Elizabeth Taylor, playing bitch-wife to Richard Burton's hagridden husband, proves that there is talent on both sides of the family...
Race Against Time. The trapped middle-ager is introspective, resigned, and rebellious all at the same time. Modern literature and drama vividly depict his psychic desperation, from Bellow's Herzog to Miller's After the Fall, from Albee's Virginia Woolf to Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence, from the novels of John Marquand to the novels of John O'Hara. John Cheever, who writes of middle age with autumnal sadness, is its prose laureate. In O Youth and Beauty!, he tells of the ritual of Cash Bentley, a former track star turned 40 who, when...
Reverse Oedipal Tide. Most middle-agers do not fight the clock as fatally as Cash Bentley, but many try to turn it back. Some middle-aged husbands decide that not time, but their wives, are sapping their lives. This is the age of the domestic tirade, à la Virginia Woolf. The wife feels neglected, the husband feels nagged, both feel thoroughly bored with each other. According to Dr. Masters and Psychologist Johnson in Human Sexual Response, there is a marked flagging of male potency in the 40s, but it is not so much physical as psychic impotence...
...looked forlornly forward to Luci Baines Johnson's August wedding. As Lady Bird's press secretary, Liz has cause to worry. All the world's journalists, from the Australian Consolidated Press to an editor of the student paper at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia, want to come to the affair. Turning most of them down is tough enough; saying no to assorted requests from reporters who have been invited is honing her tongue. How about telephones in the church pews? Liz was asked. "It's strictly on your knees, girls, for 90 minutes...