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There really is no dispute: both publications are original. Hoot Owl appears to be a bit jealous-because it has been struggling for five hard months with next to no recognition, while Kids gained national attention in only one month. Its first guest editors, Candace Lowe, 12, and Marc Alonso, 10, have already appeared on the David Frost Show...
...PASSION OF ROBERT BRONSON by J. M. Alonso. 236 pages. McCall...
...strongest presence in the novel -wilder than Bronson, more outrageous even than Muldoon-is the author. Born in Buenos Aires, graduated from Harvard, now a professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at Tufts, J.M. Alonso, 34, is one of the most exotic students of American character since that other Hispano-American, George Santayana. Tirelessly inventive in his theories and his jokes, Alonso exuberantly refuses to draw lines between the two. But on at least one or two points, he would seem to be speaking seriously, and for himself. Like Santayana, he knows in his Latin bones something the natives...
...America, Alonso would appear to be letting Muldoon speak for him when he sputters: "Even if New England were to contribute more transcendentalists now, they too would be exactly like the produce from the rest of the nation: somehow Californian, hedonistic Pollyannas who betray in their every drug-scented utterance their own fundamentally middleclass, consumer's approach to the Great Questions...
...Bronson, mad Muldoon, and mad Alonso may be right-this is the age of Ralph Disney Emerson. But what marvelously alive exceptions they make to the rule of blandness...