Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STANLEY HOFFMANN, professor of Government who is in Cambridge even though on sabbatical, was part of a program at Wellesley on Tuesday night. Hoffmann was one of four panelists-including the wife of Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy-who talked with a large audience about the war and the Moratorium...
Willie's heart goes out to these people. He laughs with them, not at them. When he visits old chum Orville Sandweiss, now locked into a wife-swapping element of Cleveland society. Willie does not mock bourgeois Orville. He merely describes and wonders how Orville goes on making love to his wife ("I might just as well be sticking it in soapy water," says Orville), Willie finds Orville outlandish and so do we-but it is an outlandishness on the side of the humane rather than the grotesque...
...lovers are laid on a bit too thick. It is only when Lebowitz brings Willie out of himself and into the world of a widow-friend of his late mother's and her tacky L.A. apartment or into the home of Professor Herman Klotz and his piece-of-ass wife that the novel hits its stride...
Before the Cliffie chose her words, however, the wife added, "I think all this protest is irrelevant...
...fielded the question aboutprotests being relevant as best she could. But the argument with the wife seemed to forebode ill for her question to the husband...