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THAT MAKES the trivia interesting is that it often tells you quite a bit about the era and the social milieu in which the person grew up, like a trip backwards in time and vertically in class. And since the celebrities are ordered alphabetically, you get some pretty stranged juxtapositions. One minute you're at the White House with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who always thought kissing was "a disgusting habit" and seems fairly contemptuous of the whole subject and the next minute you're in Butcher Hollow, Ky., with Loretta Lynn, who got married at the age of 13 knowing...
...writing those children's books and I got a job at the Yale Radio Station. (My husband is a professor at Yale and I have two daughters there.) I did a program on mental health in a New Haven asylum where they were using a milieu therapy, which was totally new at the time. I thought it was a terrific program but the director didn't like it and it was never used." So Scarf received the asylum director's permission to write an article--even though she had written only one article before, for Yale Magazine--and subsequently spent...
...Passion. Charles has made the mistake of committing a crime in a milieu where nothing much matters. He himself remains largely dead to the world, so that when he strangles his mistress (Anna Douking) during a bizarre sex game it is difficult initially to determine whether the killing was an accident or an unaccustomed act of passion. He is rather gloomy afterward, as his best friend François (François Perier) duly notes. But Charles barely manages a look of concern when François hears that his wife has met with an "accident." It is Fran...
...Painted Word, which appeared in Harper's April issue and has now been published in hard cover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book was meant to be a scathing indictment of modern art in general and of American painting and its social milieu in particular. Instead, it emerges as a curious document of frustration: the dandy as Archie Bunker...
...Ford also has a clear conception of himself, and an unequivocal conviction that the country should be run for those people, like himself, who can scramble to the top. "Ford has a gyroscope in his gut that keeps him pointed towards the accepted platitudes of his class, race and milieu." Chilton Williamson Jr. wrote in The Nation...