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Hydrophobia He-Man. The producers chose the Connecticut location, says Director Frank Perry (David and Lisa), chiefly because it matches Cheever's Eastern setting. Hollywood pools are not right anyway. Burt Lancaster, for example, has a little $30,000 layout in Bel Air, with a heating system, a waterfall and a tributary running into the living room. It was too splashy for Cheever country, so Lancaster & Co. had to go East. To add insult to imposition, Hollywood He-Man Lancaster was required to take three months of swimming lessons first to cure his mild hydrophobia...
...time. Modern literature and drama vividly depict his psychic desperation, from Bellow's Herzog to Miller's After the Fall, from Albee's Virginia Woolf to Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence, from the novels of John Marquand to the novels of John O'Hara. John Cheever, who writes of middle age with autumnal sadness, is its prose laureate. In O Youth and Beauty!, he tells of the ritual of Cash Bentley, a former track star turned 40 who, when the Saturday-night suburban party was guttering out between the empty gin bottles and the full ashtrays...
...Bunting and the Deans would support the change, if that is what the Class would like to do, Miss Cheever said...
...Miss Cheever has talked informally with about 60 seniors, of whom about 90 per cent favor the change, she said. She has written to all seniors asking that those who have "strong opinions" for or against the proposal contact her. The letter explains that some girls feel that "the focus of attention at Commencement should not be on these academic categories, especially since such a large percentage of the class will receive honors...
...letters will not be regarded as a vote, Miss Cheever explained, since so many seniors are out of town and since she has asked for only strong opinions. She added that she felt that a largo majority would have to favor the proposed change in order for it to go into effect...