Word: bellowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent decades, talk of heroes seemed to carry overtones of tyranny, of Nazism's "supermen." In socialist mythology, the masses, not the individual, were regarded as heroic. In literature, the non-hero took over. He thrives in the U.S. today in the hands of such writers as Saul Bellow-whose Herzog has his great moment at the end of the book when he manages to summon enough strength to tell his cleaning woman to sweep the kitchen. Other literary "heroes" are fall guys, incipient madmen, badgered Everymen, victims. Their motto, says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith, seems...
...elements; all is a shriek, a bellow...
...Reader, edited by Norman Podhoretz (Atheneum; $12.50), a selection of some of the magazine's best articles written by some of the era's shrewdest minds: Sidney Hook, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, George Lichtheim, Daniel Bell. The book also contains a sampling of Commentary short stories (Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Wallace Markfield), which invariably carry a social message...
...Harvard fan, happily bear-besotted, climbed onto the roof of the Navy dugout in the fifth inning and began to bellow Hamlet's "To be or not to be" Soliloquy. A Navy player retaliated by dousing him with several cups of water. The orator wobbled back to his seat and contented himself with spraying passages from Shakespeare indiscriminately at the Middics and the umpires...
...abrupt, resonant dialogue that forms the midsection of Bradstreet, Berryman was influenced by Anna Karenina and by Saul Bellow's novel Augie March, which he had just read in manuscript: "very ambitious, totally unlike most modern novels. It threw me the feeling that if I appeared to go outside the ordinary sort of business, that would be all right." The absence of any clear poetic precedent forces the reader to make a major revision of his conventional expectations...