Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Clay Felker revived New York, which had died with the World-Journal-Tribune, Gloria found her medium. Finally, she could write freely on sociology and politics. Says Felker breathlessly and in terms appropriate to a sort of junior Mary McCarthy or a Colette reborn: "She is a modern woman, independent and activist, a beautiful, intelligent, with-it, extraordinarily well-informed, first-class brain." When she practices instant sociology, the first-class brain slips occasionally. Her recent "Notes on the New Marriage" between dominating women and homosexual men contained a fascinating idea, but was flawed by superficiality and sweeping overstatements...
Though she has tried to get away from the "woman writer" tag, Gloria does not hide her feminine point of view. For the current issue of New York, she complains, in an essay about "Women and Power," that in a society which sees ambition as somehow unfeminine, "most women will have to exercise their much denied but very much alive instincts for power through men for a while yet." Happily, she forecasts a change in the future because "young girls are refusing to be emotionally blackmailed into domesticity...
...Bahamian Las Vegas, Freeport) imparts a healthy glow to the passengers for the homeward cruise. By now, the romances that are to be are under way, while the unmatched and the uninterested have found other outlets for their energies. A few eccentrics begin to make their presence known. One woman writes a note to the cruise director: "There is a group of men and women aboard ship," she begins, "who are using fictitious names-one is a chief of police, here with his mistress or possibly unknown wife not united in marriage by his church . . . These men I accuse...
...French, of course, have a long tradition of an older woman initiating a young man in the felicities of sex. Transferred to a U.S. setting, Forty Carats acquires a sociological tinge. The play enters a sane and plausible plea for a single standard of judgment on age disparity in marriage. If it is acceptable for an older man to marry a young girl, then it ought to be equally acceptable for an older woman to marry a young man. Love is a game for all seasons...
...Olsen's handling of the postman, who thought the best thing to do under the circumstances was to walk his usual route burdened with letters for the dead. Or his description of the SS man, fresh from shooting a four-year-old girl, who aided a wounded young woman because she reminded him of his fiancee...