Word: schoolgirl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolff insists that despite its vile moments, "it had been fun to be my father's son." The joy is not apparent in his depictions of Duke's sick maneuvers. Case in point: an adolescent Geoffrey dubs a well-endowed schoolgirl "pear-shaped." When Duke finds out, he locks his son alone with him in the bedroom, strips him and beats him senseless with his razor strop (a prized possession incidentally, one of Duke's "glittering things"). When the punishment is sufficiently administered, his father Duke picks up his lifeless son, hugs him and whispers, "Be good. Try at least...
Well, anyway, she's been a distance runner on and off for years. Typical junior high school star, schoolgirl scholar-athlete; but she always dreamed about running a marathon. (I know--weird dream). So then she comes to Harvard and goes to see the Big One--the Boston Marathon--her freshman year. She tells me. "I was bitten by the bug." Crazy kid decided she had to run the Boston Marathon...
...generously praises her friends, is discreet about most of her enemies and as demure as a schoolgirl about herself. One is never sure if her virginity was lost or simply faded slowly like the Cheshire cat. Still, the lady knows how to settle a score. On being romanced and jilted by Frank Sinatra after Bogart's death in 1957: "Actually, Frank did me a great favor-he saved me from the disaster our marriage would have been. The truth is he was probably smarter than I: he knew it couldn't work. But the truth also is that...
...phenomenon of the debut came into vogue in America during the early 1800's. Commonly known as "coming out," the inaugural ball was usually a young woman's first formal affair, and as such marked the end of schoolgirl days. Symbolically, it represented the metamorphosis of a young girl into a young woman eligible to receive suitors. Cynical observors often labeled the coming out season "the marriage market,", since a debutante's family hoped that by the end of the season and its whirl of parties, dances, and functions, the debutante would have become some scion's fiancee. A historian...
Alas, Tish's prose style, though always functional, has all the resonance of a schoolgirl's field hockey stick. Her sample "letter of apology for having seriously offended someone" sounds a little like W.C. Fields: "Dear Hank, There is no way I can erase the tragic error of my bumbling tongue." So with a letter to a colleague about a son who has just won a scholarship to Yale: "You and your wife must be bursting forth with unmitigated but understandable pride...