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English Professor and poet Allen Tate calls himself a "university bum...
...physical picture-his lumbering bonhomie, his carefully cultivated 5 o'clock shadow, his habit of lying disheveled on floor or sofa, an attitude he liked to assume for photographers. "He belched in public," notes Rovere rather primly and adds: "[He had] the perverse appeal of the bum, the mucker, the Dead End kid, the James Jones-Nelson Algren-Jack Kerouac hero...
...more pleasant reading than a novel that is both light and serious-unless it is a love letter written with tact. Alexis Curvers' light and serious novel is a moving love letter to the city of Rome. It consists of the memoirs of Jimmy, an exquisitely cultivated Belgian bum who gets a job as a tourist guide in the Holy City and finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight out of the Oscar Wilde era and The Yellow Book. There is a businesslike crook named Enrico...
...which the College of Cardinals chooses as Pope an expelled English novice (like himself) who reforms the church and the world, and dies a martyr. In The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, Rolfe told the truth, little less fantastic, about his years as a sort of gondola bum in Venice. Nicholas Crabbe concerns Rolfe as a pitiful but unpitying literary hack in turn-of-the-century London -badgered, betrayed and swindled by a gallery of grotesque clowns called publishers and editors. The spite of this novel is now 50 years old, but time has been no deodorant...
...flailed original dramas more harshly than run-of-the-hoof westerns. Robert Alan Arthur (Man on a Mountain Top) denounced "an incredibly brutal dismissal" of a recent production of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness by the New York Times's J. P. Shanley: "I think this bum thinks he's still writing obituaries ... It will be a long time before another show of this kind is done...