Word: bellow
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...understand and misunderstand as the essence of manhood. Testosterone has been offered as the symbolic (and sometimes literal) explanation for all the glories and infamies of men, for why they start street fights and civil wars, for why they channel surf, explore, prevail, sleep around, drive too fast, plunder, bellow, joust, plot corporate takeovers and paint their bare torsos blue during the Final Four. Hey, what's not to like...
...Nobel laureate Saul Bellow seems, as one of his comically understating fictional characters might put it, to be doing O.K. He is, for openers, the proud father of a baby daughter, Naomi-Rose, born Dec. 23 last year to Janis Freedman, 41, the author's fifth wife. Seated in his office at Boston University and sporting a jaunty blue paisley ascot and rumpled suit, Bellow talks animatedly about the new arrival: "I think that she's much keener on entering into some connection with her parents than the boys were. [Bellow has three grown sons, the eldest 56, from previous...
...Bellow understands that being a new parent at his age raises an inevitable if unstated concern, which he proceeds to address: "Well, my wife won't be lonely when I die. She'll have somebody." He also knows that fathering a child in his 80s has spurred considerable amazement among strangers and even his friends: "They try to kid me, but I say, 'Practice makes perfect...
Another reason for Bellow to celebrate is the appearance next week of his 13th novel, Ravelstein (Viking; 233 pages; $24.95). His pleasure in this new arrival, though, has been tinged with an annoyance. Most of the prepublication chatter about Ravelstein has pegged the book as a barely fictionalized account of Bellow's close friendship with Allan Bloom, his colleague at the University of Chicago and the author of the phenomenally best-selling The Closing of the American Mind (1987). When Bloom, whose writings made him a hero among conservatives, died in 1992, the cause was officially announced as liver failure...
...Bellow leaves his wife; sons Douglas of Cambridge, Mass., and David; daughter Courtenay Kettleson of Medford, Mass.; and sisters Helaine Gould of Manhasset, New York, and Bonnie Bellow of New York City...