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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the urgency of his moral insights. This puts his work in a different order of art from that of John O'Hara, a man of greater technical skill with a harder eye for the surface detail of current U.S. life, but one who is limited to a bleak and ironical view of existence in which nothing can compensate for economic and social defeat or deprivation of status. He has surmounted the limitation which renders jejune the social chronicles of John Marquand; Cheever can place his people as unerringly as Marquand in the social pecking order, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...Bleak Time. Cheever sold his first story to The New Yorker when he was 22, and the magazine soon became a regular Cheever customer. New Yorker rates were not what they are today, and his survival as a writer during the bleak years is a mystery to his friends and even to him. But he was determined from the start not to be diverted from fulltime writing by the mere need to eat. For a while he lived on stale bread and buttermilk in a $3 room on Hudson Street. Yaddo, the writers' colony run by Mrs. Elizabeth Ames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

Details of this bleak time are hard to come by from Cheever. The reason for this lies in a paradox of the fabulist's imagination. Cheever's stories enrich his life; he possesses it in a way denied to people who merely live it. Memory is important, but only memory transformed by the imagination; and to Cheever, those who have not dealt with their past and the painful realities of their origins are only half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...wrote all the time, but in those days there was nothing much to distinguish his work from 20 other short-story writers. The tone of the time was bleak, flat, ironical. He achieved this style, but it was not really his. Nor did the times suit his lyrical temperament, which today can express itself in dithyrambic celebrations. This salute to the richness of life with all its surface shimmer is part of his faith as a writer and the central ritual of his faith as a man. In one of the few statements he is prepared to make about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

Except for this annual concert, Harvard is a bleak place for jazz lovers. There is room for much, much more jazz around here, and Friday's huge, happy audience proved...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Quincy-Holmes Jazz Concert | 3/16/1964 | See Source »

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