Word: bellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-developed standard for judging the culpability of fiction; libel rulings have been concerned mostly with news reports. Real people have served as models for fictional characters, from Proust's Baron Charlus to Bellow's Humboldt. An author's weave of truth and invention is difficult to unravel, and never more so than in a semiautobiographical work like The Bell Jar, which was first published in Britain in 1963, just a month before Plath committed suicide. The story of a young woman's descent into madness spoke to the rising women's movement as well as the romantic instincts...
...elusive editors who dread authors as "walking vessels of petty grievance and conceit." An especially funny cameo is Allan Schieffman, the macho editor who boasts to Frances that "Norman Mailer had punched him in the stomach, an affectionate punch, and a tribute to his washboard midriff . . . Saul Bellow had bipped him on the arm to test his biceps. William Styron, who was balding, had tugged at Allan's thick brown hair...
Stop at this small city, find a winding, narrow road to a quaint town, drive across the covered bridge, turn around, find more foliage. There are apple picking orchards in West Brattleboro, in Bellow's Fall, in Grafton. That's what the tourism board told us, but by the time we got to Vermont, it was difficult to decipher my handwriting and keep my eye on the road at the same time. And the phone number for Francis Miller Orchards was busy when we called...
...love has become a familiar theme of contemporary fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer made it the title of a book of short stories; John Cheever, John Updike and Saul Bellow have explored its surprising depths and passions. In their wake Philanthropist Astor, now in her early 80s, slyly subtitles her fourth and best book "a period piece." Actually, it concerns two periods: the year before the Crash and the time after middle age. She is obviously an expert on both. With witty understatement and antic plot, she shows a high social stratum at its apogee. Messages are delivered on silver salvers...
People wonder why journalists make so much of Farrakhan; this is one reason why. If Farrakhan were a single voice in the wind, little would be risked by letting him bellow without notice. But he has accomplices in tens of thousands of secret haters who are at least as dangerous as their hero because they are anonymous. The press may or may not "create" Farrakhan, but it does not create the silent haters. If everyone turned his face away from Farrakhan or those like him, how would people know the extent of his supporters, or their own peril...