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...next 22 hours, she said, they walked, talked, ate hamburgers and saw five double-feature movies. Meanwhile, the alarmed Lebohners called the cops. They finally found the couple in a Times Square movie house (the double bill: Time of Desire and Tides of Passion), arrested Dorothy as a "wayward minor...
...WAYWARD WIFE (221 pp.)-Alberto Moravia-Farrar, Straus...
...title story. Moravia's people do not really have faces, perhaps because he is less interested in writing of people than in describing the enormous distances that separate them. But he has surveyed those spaces with great exactness. Reconciliation of a sort follows the adulterous affair in The Wayward Wife, but the terrain of indifference and ignorance that lies between the country wife and the chattering physics professor she has married is too vast to be bridged...
When the last brickbat had been flung, Eleanor Roosevelt rose up like teacher reproving a wayward elderly schoolboy. "He doesn't like certain kinds of liberals," she said. "I welcome every kind of liberal . . . Perhaps we have something to learn from liberals that are younger." Flushing to his hairline, Truman managed to applaud politely. But, as usual, he had the last hot word. Next day before he flew back home to Missouri, Truman grandly assured attendant reporters that "there isn't any split. There aren't any liberals in the Democratic Party; they're all Democrats...
...their hope for the fast-stepping of the youth vanguard ("At the Revolution, I will be there"). It is difficult to think of a western parallel for this collective identification, unless it would be the unplanned social cast of the "teenager", given group status by popular song, and whose wayward extremes think they are fulfilling a public image "Get your knife, Freddy...