Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are other possibilities for the writers' decline, but he never mentions them--never mentions that like other writers, they might have grown tired or lost their passion for writing, that they might have lost the vitality of youth or that their material had grown stale. So Dardis never really convinces that the authors were victims of alcohol alone...
MAYBE recapturing our lost youth, even if we only lost it four years ago, is what senior bars are all about. Freshperson Week, our proctors told us to eat, drink and see Love Story, for tomorrow we had to start working. Today, we stand in a similar position, poised over the abyss of boundless promise. Is it any wonder we should want so intensely to party so desperately, as we once did? We'll never get to experience such delirious claustrophobia again...
...exasperated editors, she was confronted by battalions of advertising and research "pros." She recalls them as gnomish little men who denigrated an audience of older women and told her that old "broads" and "gals" didn't want to see pictures of themselves. They smugly reiterated the Madison Avenue maxim: Youth is beauty. "The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality," explains Lear, who despite the tumult plowed ahead and chose to remain a solo financial player to ensure her control of the enterprise. Kevin Buckley, the first editor during the bruising start-up, nonetheless credits...
...Frances Lear has a serious enemy, it is the youth culture, which she blames for confining some women to birdcage existences. "Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential," she laments. "We must look into the mirror and smile." She caustically castigates the youth culture for denying sexuality to mature women and instilling in them a sense of inferiority. Her frequent fantasy is to annihilate the Playboy magazine mentality that she blames for psychologically crippling women by attaching a Playmate's age and dimensions to female sexuality. "Someday we will have...
Frances Lear was a feisty child, a frustrated housewife and finally a divorcee with big money. With it, she is trying to free her female agemates from the youth cult...