Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN is Edward Albee's version of the wicked world of U.S. suburbia. When the little woman (Barbara Bel Geddes) finds she needs more money, she goes to work on the side as a, well, you know, a lady of pleasure. Hubby (Barry Nelson) adjusts quickly when he finds out all the girls at the country club are doing...
...Attorney General, Nicholas Katzenbach used to grumble: "If I hear that another woman has been raped, I just know that within 30 minutes I'm going to get a call from the White House: 'I thought I told you to clean up that crime situation.' " Lyndon Johnson knows that the alarming rate of crime is growing in im portance as a national political issue, and that the latest FBI statistics are rather harrowing. In the first nine months of 1967, crimes in the U.S. increased by 16%, with street robberies up 27%, bank robberies 60% and murders...
...when she sings, she is something else again. "Ain't nobody gonna turn me around," she belts out in the knowing tones of an older and wiser woman. Her plangent voice, ranging from a sensual whisper to a banshee wail, exuberantly projects the confident sexuality of Baby, I Love You: If you want my lovin'. , . Stretch out your arms, little boy, you're gonna get it, 'Cause I love you. Or it summons the throbbing despair and resignation of Going Down Slow, a lament of oncoming death: Somebody write my father . . . Tell him that early...
...their new country are incompatible; Americans go to Europe and dream of coming home. Miss Stead also fences with the discontents and ambiguities of big-city life. In one story, an alcoholic who has buckled under urban pressure "longs for the simple rest of a child or a woman or a dog." Yet he knows that "a man wants more, much more." Wit, satire, views on social, moral and intellectual history -the author offers them with a refinement and subtlety that provide fresh insights into the daily experiences most people share...
...Another woman who was re-established as a significant writer this year is Jane Bowles (wife of Author-Composer Paul Bowles). In her Collected Works, the most prominent entry is Two Serious Ladies, which was first published in 1943 and highly praised before fading from public attention. It is a deceptively simple novel of two women trying to change their way of life. One, a sheltered spinster, seeks salvation by becoming a prostitute and does manage to achieve a heightened sense of herself. The other woman sets off to find sin and excitement and discovers in stead spiritual narcosis...