Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malcolm. The quest for a father, the spectral son, the possessive bitch-mother, the world as supreme castrater -these are themes, roles and patterns that have obsessed Edward Albee from the days of The Sandbox and The American Dream to Virginia Woolf and Tiny Alice. In this adaptation of James Purdy's novel Malcolm, he finds all his own vintage wines in another man's cellar. The trouble is that these wine bottles are now empty, and the wind whistles over them all evening with a low, monotonous, deadly moan...
...Britain's eclectic world of arts and letters. Though he remarked that economists should be humble, like dentists, he enjoyed trouncing countesses at bridge and Prime Ministers at lunch-table debates. He became a leader of the Bloomsbury set of avant-garde writers and painters, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and E. M. Forster. At a party at the Sitwells, he met Lydia Lopokova, a ballerina of the Diaghilev Russian ballet. She was blonde and buxom; he was frail and stoop-shouldered, with watery blue eyes. She chucked her career to marry him. His only regret in life...
Marriage Revealed. Sandy Dennis, 28, Broadway's Tony Award-winning golden innocent in Any Wednesday, currently filming Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? alongside Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor; and Gerry Mulligan, 38, cool jazz saxophonist; he for the second time; in Connecticut; in June...
...afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not high-minded Smith College. Despite the unflattering references to the fictional school in Edward Albee's hit play ("Musical beds is the faculty sport here"), Smith is allowing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton the run of the campus for exteriors in the screen version of Virginia Woolf. Explained a Smith official: "As an educational institution we didn't feel we could conscientiously bar them from our premises." A Northampton chamber of commerce official was also unafraid...
...were turned away "because there just wasn't any room for them." Even so, the course remains the largest in the Summer School. Coming close in terms of size are to English courses. There are 140 people enrolled in English S-164. "The Modern British Novel: Conrad to Virginia Woolf"; and 122 in English S-151, "The Nineteenth-Century Novel...