Word: wandrous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steamer passenger line in America, Boston was its natural choice of the terminus. In 1966, only 34 scheduled passenger ships will leave Boston Harbor and nearly all of these are cruises to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Gone too are the coastal shuttle boats to New York (remember Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8?) which did in a more leisurely age what the Logan shuttles do now. At every turn, Boston Harbor evokes its past, not in the solid romantic way of Beacon Hill, but in a mood of decline and acceptance of a less-glamorous modern shipping world where Boston...
...catastrophe might be attributed to force of habit. For Butterfield 8 is one of the truly great chronicles of the 1930's. Unlike the more recent O'Hara offerings, it is not filled with drooly bedroom scenes and lurid prose; rather, it is a sympathetic study of Gloria Wandrous and of the kind of age that could produce such a girl...
...into an indefinite period which closely resembles now. The trouble with this move, which saves the studio the trouble of recreating the clothes, speech, and home furnishing style of the '30's, and enables Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey to cruise around in fancy sports cars, is that Gloria Wandrous has no relation with the Missile Age. She and her generation died long ago. Perhaps it is just that the amateur prostitute has disappeared as a type form--or has become too common to be unusual...
Miss Taylor is, after all, a competent actress, and she does at times bring to the role of Gloria Wandrous something of the spirit of O'Hara's book. But Mr. Harvey is a totally unbelievable Weston Liggett. He speaks with a muted British accent, which may be intended to sound like Old Yale, but doesn't and he looks as though he were still in Room at the Top. It is inconceivable that any girl would waste a week touring the East's better morels with such an out-and-out spineless creep as Mr. Harvey portrays...