Word: womanless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction at womanless Princeton may be less exuberant. But Rudenstine will probably get used...
...HOMECOMING. When the eldest son brings his wife to the womanless house of his family, the situation is set for a clash-between his youth and his father's age, his intellectualism and his father's brute force, the claims of his children on his wife and the claims of his brothers. Peter Hall directs members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in a tightly orchestrated performance...
...university, Teddy, a philosophy professor (Michael Craig), brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) back to North London to meet his widowed father, a bachelor uncle, and two younger brothers. An amoral crew with the ethics of asphalt-jungle cats, they live in "the land of no holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm), is a dapper spiv of a pimp with a lively, corrupt intelligence. Joey (Terence Rigby), the younger...
...there they are. Grown men playing in the world's biggest sandbox and wondering how on God's green earth they got there. They bicker, they drink, they gamble, they bicker. By day the sun, by night frustration fries them. As the womanless weeks go by, they turn into wild-eyed wolves who would tear each other to pieces for a fresh young chicken...
...Hosky"). Wilde's active homosexualism is not thought to have begun until years later; nothing is to be inferred from cute nicknames or cuddly phrases beyond the surrogate sexuality common to young upper-class British males in Victorian times. The public-school youth of those years lived a womanless life from the time he left the nursery till he was ready to marry, and Wilde was merely one side of the Victorian coin whose obverse was that ascetic, womanless hero, General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon...