Word: bellowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans, meanwhile, have adopted comedy as their tool and social alienation and absurdity as their twin themes. Nearly every important American writer-Nabokov, Mailer Barm, Bellow, Malamud, Donleavy, Roth, Friedman, Burroughs, Heller, Pynchon, Willingham-works from an assumption that society is at best malevolent and stupid, at worst wholly lunatic. The gods are dead and their graves untended, morality is a matter of picking one's way between competing absurdities, and the only sane reaction to society-to its alleged truths and virtues, its would-be terrors and taboos-is a cackle or a scream of possibly cathartic laughter...
...first glance, group violence may not seem to be the U.S. paradigm. Individualists claw their way through the unrelieved shootings, stabbings, rapes and lynchings of American fiction; lone duelers against fate people the works of writers as various as Melville, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Saul Bellow. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking and his numerous uptight descendants-the Western marshal, the private eye-are solitary scouts strewing the wilderness with dead Indians and renegades. Still, the singular misfits who tamed the frontier with bile, brawn and bowies were also members of often hostile groups-cattlemen v. sheepherders, for example. Indeed...
Seminarians and secular students alike find appeal in what Rylaarsdam calls "the worldliness of the Jewish Rylaarsdam also attributes in creased interest in Judaism to widely read Jewish novelists like Saul Bellow, whose moral in sights are "more attuned to this technological age" than many a Christian sermon...
...that the Gazette watches only over its own citizenry. In summer, the population swells from 6,000 to some 50,000, and the paper views the comings and goings of these fair-weather residents with a wry Yankee eye. Max Eastman, Saul Bellow, Thomas Hart Benton, James Cagney, Leonard Bernstein are the stuff of summer gossip. Such is its relish for celebrities that the Gazette mixes fact' with fantasy in breezy abandon. One memorable item revealed that "Truman Capote and Geraldine Chaplin have checked into the bridal suite of the Menemsha...
...Down. For all its unpleasantness, the Bellow affair brought Podhoretz the attention he craved. He got review assignments from The New Yorker and Partisan Review, which enhanced his club membership. And like many other members, he carefully cultivated his status. Every morning, he would scan the invisible "stockmarket report" on reputations and measure the gains and losses. By implication, he suggests that other members did the same. "Did so-and-so have dinner at Jacqueline Kennedy's apartment last night? Up five points. Was so-and-so not invited by the Lowells to meet the latest visiting Russian poet...