Word: wife
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PARTY and THE BASEMENT. Harold Pinter provokes a devilishly clever sort of participatory theater in which the playgoer is lured into playing detective without any clues. In Tea Party, a middle-aged manufacturer of bidets is driven into a catatonic state by the interactions of his secretary, his wife and her brother. The Basement has two old friends vying for the affections of a girl with whom they share a basement flat...
...GEORGE A. OWENS, 49, TOUGALOO COLLEGE, Tougaloo, Miss. (712 students). The son of a sharecropper, Owens put himself through Tougaloo (one job: chauffeuring the president's wife), earned a master's degree in business administration at Columbia on the G.I. Bill...
...unseemly side of Victorian life that Millais and the Ruskins might be expected to emerge as just one more post-Freudian snigger at the sexual vagaries of yesteryear. In a sense, such treatment would be warranted. Ruskin did, after all, get through six years of marriage without bedding his wife. He later asserted that he had come to feel that Effie was unfit to be a mother...
...throwing her at various gentlemen friends, including Millais, hoping to involve her in what she quaintly referred to as a "scrape." She, on her part, meticulously maintained a spotless reputation. For years she had not dared to tell anyone that she was, in the euphemism of the age, a wife in name only. Eventually she understood that in abstinence lay salvation, via a virtuous annulment. Where once she had wanted Ruskin to consummate the marriage, she now deliberately made herself as unpleasant to him as she could...
This enduring tension between worldliness and renunciation, so characteristic of Kazantzakis' novels, is persistently evident in his letters, which have now been collected by his wife and woven together into a very special sort of biography. More fragmentary than Report to Greco, Kazantzakis' autobiography, the book offers intensely personal footnotes to the life of a man who was alternately repelled and enraptured by the world he lived...