Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NORMAN PODHORETZ ARRIVED on the intellectual magazine circuit in the early '40's, fresh from a brilliant undergraduate career as Lionel Trilling's and F.R. Leavis' favorite son. He cut his political teeth in the late 1940's as a liberal and an anti-Communist...
...find much better books about jazz. For literary merit, read LeRoi Jones's uneven but occasionally brilliant Black Music. For biography and oral history, read Spellman's Four Lives. For comprehensive approach and an up-to-date discography Frank Tirro's Jazz: A History is among one of the best. But if you know nothing about jazz and want to learn, spend your money on records instead...
...Bugs Bunny makes a ravishing Brunhilde opposite Elmer Fudd's stalwart Wagnerian hero. In Duck Amuck, Daffy Duck, whose specialty is egocentricity, suffers the indignity of having his costumes and backgrounds constantly redrawn by a demented animator whose hand and brush become Daffy's antagonist in a brilliant bit of Pop surrealism. Almost as original are: a teaming of Duck and Bunny (representing greed and insouciance) pursued by the guardian of an Arab's treasure that they have stumbled across; the Duck impersonating Errol Flynn as Robin Hood; Bugs as a bullfighter...
...lunching at Club 21 and collecting forged membership cards from places like the New York Racquet Club--to boarding house sleaziness in Atlanta, and at last to a dishonorable end in a San Diego jail. He conned his employers and an endless string of gullible patrons with the same brilliant display of All-American neon gutsiness which led his own son not only to accept his lies, but to gobble them like kids of his '50s era devoured Wheaties...
...still want to assay the bulk of Letters--out of a sentimental attachment to Barth's brilliant earlier epic-length efforts, Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor, or out of sheer quixotic nerve--you could take the advice of Jacob Horner, formerly the protagonist of The End of the Road and now a pawn wandering Barth's checkerboard...