Word: bellowing
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...like vipet's tongue. Trouble with Mr. Vidladhar Surajprasad Naipaul, as Bud Collins would cali him, is that he is way too young as well as way too popular. The average age of the last six winners when they got the TNT laurels is over 71, and Bellow '76 was the kid on the block at 61. A fot at 50, Vidiadhar will have to wait...
...know it's going to be the poet laureate of Lesotho or Burundi, so why I bothered, I don't know, I started doing this for my own records in 1968, when I picked the author Of Harold and the Purple Crayon. I've singled once--everyone knew Bellow would get it during the Bicentennial. My average? 077, but today is the first day of the rest of my life. Pass the chips...
...never lacked for critics eager to consign him to the minors. His career began during the heyday of brilliant U.S. Jewish writing. Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, among others, were the critics' darlings. A sensitive outsider from the sticks did not measure up to prevailing standards. In Commentary, Norman Podhoretz complained, "His short stories ... strike me as all windup and no delivery." Bruised by appraisals like this, Updike eventually turned his hurt feelings to good use: "Out of that unease, I created Henry Bech to show that I was really a Jewish writer also...
...nothing so drastic in mind as the solution frequently suggested by members of Harvard's alleged half-time entertainment corps. "Two-Four-Six-Eight...Cheerleaders, roll over and die!" the merciless would-be minstrels bellow. But after all, these are Harvard students we're talking about. A lot has been invested in them, and there may well be something left to recover...
...files into the mental boardroom. Literature degenerates into a responsibility. The Nobel Prize for Literature has of ten been set aside for the writer of greatest geopolitical obscurity (Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric, 1961). But the prize need not be a disgrace: a writer can rise above it. Saul Bellow (Nobel, 1976) has managed. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) has done what the greatest and liveliest usually do: he has made a world, a lost, magic place fall of God and demons and strange, tumbling life...