Word: author
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Shockley, author of a controversial theory that correlates IQ with race, said yesterday "the American intellectual community" has demonstrated "profound intellectual irresponsibility" on this issue. He added that while "Dorfman has done a sound piece of work," his conclusion is "not entirely warranted...
...appropriate word. Long before she saw her first play, Marian Seldes knew she would become an actress. Recently, she became an author as well. The Bright Lights: A Theatrical Life is not the autobiography of a famous person, because "I'm not famous." Nor is it a book of Theatrical Celebrities gossip, though memories of Tallulah Bankhead and Laurence Olivier fill the pages. Instead, The Bright Lights interweaves anecdotes with analysis to describe "a lifetime of work in the theatre." The work ranges from the triumph of Equus, which offered the change to act with three stars--Anthony Hopkins, Anthony...
Seldes wanted to obtain an effect of different "tempos" in her writing, to avoid the monotonous quality she feels many memoirs possess. The tone of The Bright Lights ranges from philosophical to comical to lyrical. In this sense, the book mirrors its author: as The Bright Lights shifts narrative moods in a matter of paragraphs, so Seldes shifts personal moods in a matter of minutes...
THERE IS desperation in this compact novel, and madness too. Tom McGuane is 38 years old now--Panama lunges and spouts like Hero's engine and reads as if the author does not intend to see 40. Chester (Chet) Hunnicut Pomeroy is the scion of an old Key West shipbuilding family, but Chet has rejected all that for fleeting fame in the three-chord world of rock and roll. Or something larger than that: A Mick Jagger-like figure with an equal part of Maharaji Ji and Keith Richard's bad teeth thrown in, he somehow got elevated into...
...Shaw's typical mode, and one that too many critics and readers have taken literally. A revision is overdue. The experience of going through these resonant tales, remembers the author, was some thing like what is supposed to happen when a man is drowning, as scene after scene of his life passes before his eyes. If the drowning man is devout, it can be imagined that in those final moments he examines the scenes to determine the balance between his sins and his virtues with a view toward eventual salvation. Since l am not particularly devout, my chances...