Word: bellower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know what you're getting," he told an audience at Emerson Hall. "To make sure the evening isn't completely wasted. I'll read a poem by another man first..."He prefaced dream song #29 with a mock-heroic line: "Prepare to weep, ladies and gentlemen. Saul Bellow and I almost kill ourselves laughing about the dream songs and various chapters in his novels, but other people feel bad. Are you all ready to feel bad?" And more sternly," this is not a cultural occasion. No instruction is taking place. It's all entertainment...
...oeuvre-size smoked sausages with a slice of bread. In Hamburg, if you ask for a hamburger, the man behind the counter will say, "Ich bin ein Hamburger! Everyone who lives here is a Hamburger!" And when you are in a German beer hall, don't bellow out that favorite of American rathskellers-"Ist das nicht ein Schnitzelbank? Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank"-everyone will think you're crazy, except, of course, the American tourists at the next table, who will join...
...Saul Bellow has called him "one of the very best writers of his generation." He has won Guggenheim and Houghton Mifflin fellowships, and is currently living in Greece on a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Critics found his earlier books, The Cat Man (about circus life) and The Circle Home (about boxing), flat on characterization and rickety on plot, but praised him as a stylist. The Peacock's Tail is the story of a youne New Yorker's trials after he loses his girl Sandy to a Jewish rival. He becomes a refugee...
...Night of Camp David, Knebel (8) 10. Herzog, Bellow...
...Down Staircase, Kaufman (2) 3. The Looking Glass War, le Carré (3) 4. Hotel, Hailey (5) 5. The Ambassador, West (6) 6. The Green Berets, Moore (4) 7. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (7) 8. Night of Camp David, Knebel (8) 9. Herzog, Bellow (10) 10. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (9) NONFICTION 1. The Making of the President, 1964, White (1) 2. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre...