Word: author
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Norman Mailer, author (Armies of the Night), on his five trips to the altar: "I suppose I've married so often because we all travel in different ways. Being married to two different women is like being in two differnt countries...
...They are like people coming out of a dream, blinking in the light," says Playwright Arthur Miller of the artists, film makers and writers he has been interviewing in China. The author of Death of a Salesman spent a month gathering material for a book, Chinese Encounters, a joint venture with his photographer wife Inge Morath. "I found them remote and totally cut off," Miller said of his subjects. Until the government's recent liberalizing trend, they were "sequestered on farms feeding pigs." Although none of the Chinese Miller met knew of his work, there were some recollections...
...author is at his best in a section titled "Legends of Today." The parables are brief, ironic and heartbreaking. Here is one prisoner refusing the demand of a German officer to revile Jehovah. "Curse your God!" the officer screams, promising him an easy job if he does so. "God is God," the man prays. "God alone is God." "God" is on the man's lips as he dies. "I was there," testifies the martyr's son. "You see, my father . . . my father was a hero ... But he was not a believer." There are other more pitiful tales...
...read any of them intelligently with all this gabble going on? In the big game of is he or isn't he, the author is the one sure loser...
...about the mandarins of New York film reviewing. He goes awry when he tries to deal with Hemingway, perceiving the oafishness and neuroticism but for the most part missing the art. Never mind; for Sheed's work, the good word is an honest title. Describing his trade, the author writes: " 'Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail,' is how Sam Johnson, blues singer, described the writer's life." A lovely, far away phrase, that "blues singer," in a fine, argumentative book...