Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terribly difficult to combine sex and art without suffering. Ever since Judge Woolsey's historic decision on Ulysses, the moneymakers have been trying to imbue pornography with "redeeming social value." Unfortunately, this usually makes for bad pornography...
...irony and mordant wit. Hence Pocahontas is "our first celebrated traitor to her own race ... a model long in advance of Uncle Tom." Hannah Duston is not the heroic protector of white womanhood and the family but the great castrating mother of all men-a Mary Worth in linsey-woolsey. The tale of Rip Van Winkle is really about booze as a weapon against women. Only Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook make it through Fiedler's gauntlet without lumps. They constitute, he says, "the image of the runaway from home and civilization whom we long...
...Gatto, the pint-sized captainelect of the Harvard varsity football team, will take a verbal shot at the Yale varsity football team Monday at Woolsey Hall in New Haven...
...voice, and a talent for leaking torrents of tears on cue, Wheeler was a comic fixture ever since 1911 when he played in George M. Cohan's 45 Minutes from Broadway. He went on to the Ziegfeld Follies, then to Hollywood, where he teamed with the late Robert Woolsey in some 30 comedies...
...clever, too humorous, too well read, too (in the current all-purpose adjective of the liberal Establishment) "attractive." He is a solitary sniper, taking skillful shots at the Great Society, at peaceful coexisters, at the heirs and assigns of John F. Kennedy, at Lindsay-woolsey Republicans. Sometimes even an enemy smiles as Buckley hits the mark; sometimes his own rhetorical smoke screen obscures the target. Yet he never tires of the battle. Or is it sport...