Word: bellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Nikos Kazantzakis, a top candidate for 1952's Nobel Prize. His Zorba the Greek had a picaresque hero who, almost alone in the fiction of 1953, communicated the conviction that it is wonderful to be alive. By comparison, the chest-beating hero of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March was a neurotic wise guy-though Augie did better than Zorba in the bookstores...
...version of Annie Get Your Gun) knows how to saddle up his songs and ride them for all they're worth-which, in this case, is not much. Songstress Day, as Calamity, is clearly aiming at the Ethel Merman manner. But where husky Ethel, with her large-bore bellow, can roar out a song until her throat fairly smokes, dainty Doris is more like a Girl Scout with a shiny new Daisy: she's loaded, but hardly for bear...
...Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow. A Chicago tough guy discovers his destiny with the help of the Harvard Classics and a beautiful tart (TIME, Sept...
...Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow. A Chicago tough guy discovers his destiny with the help of the Harvard Classics and a beautiful tart (TIME, Sept...
...Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow. A Chicago tough guy discovers his destiny with the help of the larvard Classics and a beautiful tart TIME, Sept...