Word: broyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply out of "young-people-today" defensiveness that I cite the conclusion to Anatole Broyard's review in the New York Times of Anais Nin's fourth diary. However undeveloped and inadvertant his point may have been, it gets at the heart of what there is to be said about Anais Nin. "It seems that the diaries are enjoying a tremendous vogue among the young people today. It is a good thing, for Miss Nin is certainly an improvement over The Prophet, Love Story and The Greening of America." How much of an improvement, he cannot bring himself...
...feminists led by Australian Author Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch). As the distinctively distaff heckling mounted, Mailer shouted, "I'm not going to sit here and let you harridans harangue me." Mailer's was not the only maimed male ego. When asked by hapless Critic Anatole Broyard to spell out what the liberated woman wants, Greer snapped: "Whatever it is we're asking for, honey...