Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kahn's ability to avoid the mawkish trivialities shows in his two recent books. The first, The Boys of Summer, was a story of his love affair with the old Brooklyn Dodgers, the Ebbets Field titans like Snider and Furillo and Robinson, and how they braved the autumn of their retirement. Suffused with the warmth of an adoring child who has recognized the mortality of his idols, the book was an endearing autobiography as well as a finely-tooled bit of nostalgia...
...complaints about the playing conditions of the autumn games persist or grow wider...Mr. Kuhn will propose that the sight of the World Series be moved permanently to some friendly metropolis in the Sunbelt, perhaps one that has a large, domed enclosure waiting to be filled--New Orleans say, or Houston--or rotated each year, in the style of the Super Bowl, among two or three such cities. The World Series will thus be instantly transformed into Superweek--the Super Bowl multiplied by seven, the ultimate Sportsfest USA...the first all-American sports show truly worthy of a Howard Cosell...
...Department and White House experts had predicted a narrow Labor win; when National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was alerted to an early projection that Labor was out, he could hardly believe it. "No, no," he said. "That's wrong." Solidly committed to a resumption of Geneva peace talks by autumn, the Carter Administration had assumed that it would be dealing with Shimon Peres?who was admittedly a hawk as Defense Minister, but who had expressed in principle his belief that Israel could return occupied territories in exchange for real peace. Begin's determined, possessive attitude toward the West Bank...
Much of the novel is set in a fictitious Central American republic, a territory of the mind that has lately received many tourists. Joan Didion exercised her talents there in A Book of Common Prayer. García 3's The Autumn of the Patriarch also took place in such a Central American dreamscape. Niña Huanca strikes similar social and political chords, but Gonzalez-Aller also seeks the high notes of myth and the mysteries of human motives...
...bulk of The Compass Flower seems too serene to rid itself of fatigued images ("autumn leaves," "salt of the earth") or to prove that its serenity has been earned by struggle. Many Western ears will find it hard to tell whether Merwin is being vatic or phatic...