Word: bellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landmark in American comic writing, Portnoy is not the final assimilation of the American Jewish novel. It is a complete cannibalization of it into the American Jewish anti-novel. Isaac Singer may continue to write marvelous stories about immigrant Jews; Saul Bellow may continue to chant the prayer for the dead over our decaying cities. But it is doubtful that anyone can ever write about the American Jewish family again without having his work ruefully compared with Portnoy's grotesque shadow...
Obvious choices, notably Sen. George McGovern, were passed over--people who could deliver an address worth the time spent listening. There are many: Elma Lewis, the founder of the Boston Afro-American Cultural Center who received an honorary degree from Harvard last year; Saul Bellow, another honorary recipient in 1972; J. Anthony Lewis '48, the Times columnist who is returning for his 25th Reunion this year...
CHARISMATIC is too weak a word for Jack's foils. With the force of a Miltonic devil, he strides to his inherited seat in the House of Lords. At a fox hunt Jack incenses the party with a bellow for a hangman's society and leads them on to the slaughter with "Dem Bones" -- the first instance where the vaudevillian flavor leaves a sour after-taste (that is made still less delectable by a tasteless little shot of the fox, smugly relieving himself on a tree trunk. Is this Jack pissing in the face of society...
Unlike many basketball coaches who argue almost every call with the officials during games and bellow loudly at their players, Harvey feels that there is little point, in screaming during games...
...using them in his fiction. "Yes, I agree. All writers worry about that. Up to now, I've tended to avoid the biographical donne. I need only a drop of biography to inspire me, to set my imagination to work. This is different from writers like Updike or Bellow, who seem to need a whole enlarged lived experience. Some people--Thomas Wolfe, for instance--seem to live their lives prior to writing about them, then they break off the pieces they want to use. My news short stories come to life usually because an idea suddenly strikes, and from then...