Word: bellower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first taste of hostility came when he wrote an unfavorable Commentary review of The Adventures of Angle March, the 1953 novel by Family Favorite Saul Bellow. According to Podhoretz, Bellow's friends were apparently persuaded that the review was part of a subtle plot to discredit him. Three years later, a well-known American poet (the reader is never told who) accosted the young critic at a party and drunkenly threatened: "We'll get you for that review if it takes ten years." The book is everywhere littered with the hairs of such neighborhood cat fights, most...
...Heller belongs to a sad but honorable tradition. Good novelists from Henry James to Hemingway have often been poor playwrights. In recent years, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and James Baldwin have also bombed theatrically, though not in New Haven...
...Beatles," the blonde nods knowingly. No, Chuck Berry, I want to tell her--written and sung by Chuck Berry when the only Liverpool sound was the bellow of an ocean-going tanker...
...barroom bathos, but failed to argue Mailer off the platform. Macdonald eventually squeezed in the valorous observation that Ho Chi Minh was really no better than Dean Rusk. After more obscenities, Mailer introduced Poet Robert Lowell, who got annoyed at requests to speak louder. "I'll bellow, but it won't do any good," he said, and proceeded to read from Lord Weary's Castle. By the time the action shifted to the Pentagon, Mailer was perky enough to get himself arrested by two marshals. "I transgressed a police line," he explained with some pride...
...word, not a grunt, not a bellow nor a sigh; not a hiccough, not wail, not a curse, nor a cry. Not a hint, in fact, that the killer weed had been smelled uptown that day. If art is, in fact, anything you can get away with, then the Diggers have indeed added a whole freaky new dimension to the concept of Revolution...