Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from formally banning them because they are often difficult to detect. Many companies, in fact, shy away from hard-and-fast rules on dress, choosing instead to deal with individual cases of way-out clothing as they arise. San Francisco's Transamerica Corp. conducts grooming classes for its women employees in an effort to upgrade "taste," hopes in that way to avoid issuing rigid, morale-damaging rules...
People working for communications and science-oriented companies, by contrast, usually dress with more of a flourish, especially if they hold down creative jobs. Like other women at Manhattan's freewheeling Jack Tinker ad agency, Commercial Producer Magi Durham likes to wear bell-bottomed trousers and men's sport shirts to the office. Her bearded husband Guy, associate creative director of Daniel & Charles ad agency, sometimes goes to work in blue jeans, other times in Edwardian suits and wide, polka-dot ties. Says Magi admiringly: "He swings on two lengths of the pendulum...
...personnel. Suddenly offered an obscure prize for his poetry, Enderby borrows a suit from a friendly chef in return for writing a cycle of torrid love poetry to the barmaid the chef is wooing. At the prize ceremonies Enderby is courted by Vesta Bainbridge, features editor of a women's magazine and unscrupulous conversion-monger for the Catholic Church. Soon after, Vesta marries the hapless Enderby and carts him off to the Holy City, where, after several unsuccessful attempts, he at last appears to submit to a basic convention...
Burgess is indiscriminate in his attacks. A sort of antihumanist, he lays his cudgel evenly on the whole of his bizarre, passively embraced cosmos and on all its characters. The most conspicuous villains of Enderby are women-womankind, randomly represented by a number of oppressively corporeal seductresses. The tragedy of Enderby's life is the upbringing his stepmother has given him. She has stamped her foster-son with her filthy habits and enforced his life-long retreat to the lavatory. From her come the whole slew of Enderby's neuroticisms, from his fear (cropping up in the author's other...
Endebry's stepmother is only a memory in the book. The women on stage are as monstrous if not as malodorous. But more telling than caricature are the occasional earnest portrayals of feminine psychology. None of the women is given motive or character. Their noxious insipidity if intentional is patronizing; if honestly drawn is the key to the shortcomings of Enderby...