Word: broyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part one of The New York Time's review of "Working," which appeared March 21, Anatole Broyard wrote: "This is the era of sentimental sociology, the apocalypse of the ordinary man. You would think they had never met one before, the way some social scientists surround him with astonishment...
...Anatole Broyard has a problem. The fact is, he's never met anybody outside of the people of his own particular milieu, whatever that might be. And he has a very deep, deep illness--a malaise. It's sad. He happens to be a good writer. He's also nutty as a fruitcake to me, you see. I shouldn't say that, 'cause in a sense he pays perverse tribute to my writing. He's implying that I'm a good writer but wasting my time with these worthless people, this inert mass of people. Of course, he doesn...
...suppose what I find most that really moves me, and I hope Broyard doesn't mind too much my saying this, is that survival quality in the midst of stuff that could make people automatons, robots. They're not yet that, and that's fantastic. This durable quality of the human species is incredible, you know...
...Anatole Broyard is nutty as a fruitcake. He's implying that I'm a good writer but wasting my time with worthless people. Of course, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about...
...emotive, as inarticulate, as narcissistic and, in a word, as adolescent as the adolescents who, according to Anatole Broyard, are her public. The qualities of adolescence are welcome in an adolescent, but in an adult, adolescence is better termed irresponsibility. To whom is Anais Nin irresponsible? Her personal life does not warrant our moralizations. Is she irresponsible to her own talents? The question is tenuous, but provocative. Is she irresponsible to the personnages in this diary, most notably Gore Vidal, Edmund Wilson, and Henry Miller? It is tempting to dismiss the question of Anais Nin's responsibility or lack...