Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). "No Skill or Special Knowledge Required" is the second part of the four-part John Hop kins' drama, Talking to a Stranger, which relates the events leading to a suicide through the eyes of the dead woman's fam ily. The daughter gave her view first; this time it is the father's turn...
Aristotle claimed that the ideal marrying age was 37 for the man, 18 for the woman. As he saw it, both would thus reach the end of their sexual decline at roughly the same time, when he was 70 and she was 50. But what do philosophers know anyway? In fact, a woman's sexual desire may continue for years after menopause. In men, the desire may thrive until an extraordinary age. In 1583, an Englishman named Thomas Parr was found guilty of committing adultery at the age of 100 and did penance, according to the custom...
...double standard prevailing in this, as in so many other romantic matters, makes it far less acceptable for an older woman to form an alliance with a younger man. Still, there are rich precedents in that pattern as well. Oedipus and Jocasta, of course, represent a sort of ne plus ultra to cultural anthropologist, tragedian and Freudian alike. The French have a fertile background of such affairs. Henry II took his father's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, when he was 17 and she 36. Balzac met his mistress, Madame de Berny, when...
...marriage, typically hopes that a young bride will restore some of his waning sexuality and lost youth. Sexually, at least, he may be sadly mistaken. Many cases indicate that while a man's potency can be dramatically stimulated for a few months by an affair with a younger woman, he will usually revert to the same pattern he had maintained with his coeval wife. According to Sociologist Clark Vincent, on the other hand, there is more likelihood of serious differences in sexual appetite among coevals than among May-December couples. Vincent's theory, however...
...well do marriages of noncontemporaries generally work? Some, of course, are disastrous. Dr. Paul Popenoe, president of the American Institute of Family Relations, cites the case of a middle-aged woman who married a man ten years her junior. She rapidly worked herself into such a frenzy of jealousy over her younger husband that Popenoe eventually advised the man to leave the country immediately. Instead, he stayed with his wife. Six months later she murdered him and killed herself...